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I loved trial work, but hated everything else about being a litigator. Actually, not true. I liked doing fact investigations, initial research, and then assembling the tiny little puzzle pieces that make up a case into a coherent strategy. I was good at it, too. Great feeling when you all of a sudden know what really happened, and how to present it.
But I absolutely cannot stand the tedium of the rules and hoop jumping that is an inextricable component of litigating. And the billable hours requirement. So, I'm out of that.
Now, I just give employment and labor law advice to a few clients, acting more as an advisor/HR guy than as a lawyer. I do enjoy that a lot because I'm actually helping them, and it is much less about the process than just helping a business run correctly. Also do a lot of work, much of it non-legal, with a nationally renown expert in police use of force/shooting cases.
But I absolutely cannot stand the tedium of the rules and hoop jumping that is an inextricable component of litigating. And the billable hours requirement. So, I'm out of that.
Now, I just give employment and labor law advice to a few clients, acting more as an advisor/HR guy than as a lawyer. I do enjoy that a lot because I'm actually helping them, and it is much less about the process than just helping a business run correctly. Also do a lot of work, much of it non-legal, with a nationally renown expert in police use of force/shooting cases.