The Practice of Law, in General In case I didn’t explicitly say it in my previous post, How I Accidentally Became a Family Law Attorney, I went to law school because I believed it was a noble profession through which I could affect positive change in the world, or at least in the lives of…

The Wrong Area of Law Most lawyers avoid family law like the plague. Some are hobbyists, practitioners who focus on a different area of law – criminal or real estate law or something – and take on the odd domestic case here and there thinking it will be easy because it’s “only a custody case”…

By the time I had my heart attack last year, I was already in the process of transitioning out of legal practice. I had dissolved my law firm a few months earlier and was wrapping up the last remaining cases and taking on only a limited amount of simple, flat-fee work. There were several reasons…