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Employee or Owner?

You have a decision to make at the beginning of your legal career:

Do you want to be an employee or an owner?

This blog is for owners.

Employees are captive to the decisions and whims of others. Employees are ultimately dependent upon others for everything: work and compensation. Employees are often expendable. Moreover, employees don’t generally enjoy wide autonomy.

Owners can take control of their destiny. Owners exert dominion over their work and the directions they want to go in. Owners are essential. Owners have autonomy. Owners enjoy the benefits of firm profitability.

What is it that you want?

Introducing Path2Partner

During the last 20 years, I have built a successful defense-based litigation practice. My practice group represents approximately 20 institutional clients and includes 4 lawyers, 3 paralegals, and one legal assistant. All built from scratch. It’s not General Motors or Apple, but it’s a solid business that we are proud of, is respected within our legal community, and provides well for our families.

The purpose of this blog is to help those lawyers starting out in defense-based practices who have the ambition to take ownership of their careers from day 1 and build businesses of their own.  

The truth is there are very few resources anywhere that provide the kind of guidance we hope to bring in this blog to young lawyers. Defense-based practice can be very much sink or swim. We want to help young lawyers swim well and succeed.