I recently made the decision to move my practice to southwest Colorado, to a rural town named Pagosa Springs. A couple of older attorneys had recently become unable to practice in the town and the one remaining solo practitioner here, who is in his late 70s, had been talking me into moving for about a […]
Probably because of my military background, I am a huge believer in formalities and boundaries. Entering my career as an attorney, I saw a rigid line between acting in my capacity as an attorney and acting as a friend, a therapist, and a life coach for my clients. I believed my job was solely to […]
So there I was: standing in the waiting room for municipal court, asking the clerk if my case could be called so I could avoid billing my client for unnecessary waiting time. The hamster turning the wheel inside my brain had just completely stopped, and I was absolutely dumbfounded by the clerk’s question. In fact, […]
I didn’t grow up in a family of lawyers or have any exposure to the legal profession in either my formative or young adult years. If you had asked me in high school where I would be at age 29, being a third-year law student in Denver, would be the last place I would have […]