While the recession may be receding, provided your a Wall Street Bonus Baby, many criminal defense lawyers continue to find it difficult to make a go of it, unable to find defendants capable or willing to shell over their few remaining dollars to give them a fighting chance. Does it feel like a lost cause? Then consider the options.
From Grey Tesh, President of the Palm Beach Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and eyeglass model:
There’s plenty of work out there. If you are a hustler, you’ll do fine. I try and stay away from the naysayers. You know. The people that say “Business sucks. Nobody has any money…I’ve never seen it this bad in my 22 years of practice.” Stop complaining, get off your ass and hustle. Do something. Build a better website, take civil lawyers to lunch, volunteer in something you believe in – anything. Take your tale of woe elsewhere.
If people are not hiring you, it may not just be that they “have no money.” Many times it is a lack of trust. Concentrate on what they want and need, care about them and the trust will come.
Or maybe you just have ugly eyeglasses, you negative nellies. Think contacts.
Perhaps you’ve grown tired of the law, the grind, the head-banging. Maybe you really don’t want to put the effort into hustling your way to vast wealth, Palm Beach style. If so, there’s always the path of Casey Berman, Hastings Law Grad and card-carrying member of the Slackoisie.
Perhaps you’ve grown tired of the law, the grind, the head-banging. Maybe you really don’t want to put the effort into hustling your way to vast wealth, Palm Beach style. If so, there’s always the path of Casey Berman, Hastings Law Grad and card-carrying member of the Slackoisie.
Long before the recession killed the job market, Casey Berman realized the law wasn’t for him.It seems Casey’s an old pro at creating businesses, though it hasn’t done him a lot of good, considering that while pushing his new consultancy start-up, he’s “working full time at Berman Capital, his father’s investment banking firm in North Beach.” Remember, it’s always best when “leaving law behind” to have a daddy with an investment banking firm. Just to speak to you father. He’ll be happy to do it for you.
Having launched a number of companies already — and sold one — now he’s launching another: a consultancy called Leave Law Behind through which he’ll hold the hands of disillusioned lawyers who want to start their own businesses.
Or, as I found out in the mail yesterday, one can approach new options from the other side. I received a letter from the very prestigious Cambridge Who’s Who. Note that it is not to be confused with Fat Tony’s Who’s Who, which is not nearly as prestigious. Only Who’s Who with Anglo sounding names are prestigious.
Having regularly received these Who’s Who letters over the years, ranging from Who’s Who on my Street to Who’s Who in the World (because Nelson Mandella and I have so very much in common), I was about to toss it when my kid, who rarely receives mail, asked if he could open it. I gave it to him, and watched as his eyes exploded. He informed with newfound respect that I was now going to be in Who’s Who in Medicine. Woo hoo!
Please understand that I’m constrained to suffer the disdain of my darling wife, Dr. SJ, who enjoys immensely reminding me of my deficient education and that lawyers’ degrees only say the word “doctor” for government pay grade purposes. This letter changed everything.
Obviously, I am now a powerful force in medicine. I know this because Cambridge Who’s Who said so. They would never lie. Whereas yesterday my career options were limited, either to learn how to do the hustle (something I failed to accomplish in the 1970s) or to beg my father to end his retirement to found a wonderfully successful investment banking firm, I can now begin my career in medicine from the very top of the profession. And I don’t even have my own pair of latex gloves! What a great country!
As for me, I’ve already got as much business as I can handle and would hate to leave my clients in the lurch while engaging in much needed proctology examinations (bare-handed), so I’m just going to keep doing what I’ve always done. But at least I can tell Dr. SJ that she’s got nothing on me anymore.
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