With each leaf that falls, the landscape below changes. Use that change to your advantage. Almost everyday that I meet with my students I have a new proposal for specialization. “Niche Practice” is not new. In fact, it is promoted everywhere I look. But, there is good reason for this. Why labor trying to keep up […]

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.  – Abraham Maslow Recently, a question posed by one of my students to an experienced and very successful new solo practitioner went something like this; “Where I plan to set up my practice, it is saturated with attorneys. Should I open […]

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.  – French Proverb I am writing this blog for a very smart and accomplished student who now attends Purdue University. I have started corresponding with him under a program that Purdue offers for career counseling and mentoring. He expressed concerns about “choosing the right […]