Goodbye Law, and Hello To A New Business

by Dena Falken

Lawyers typically join the field of practice because it is a safe job, and they are highly paid without taking huge risks. After a lifetime of studying and working hard for various companies these high-achieving attorneys, (hardly naturals for entrepreneurship), find themselves financially and otherwise suffocated and overworked. As the law model in which the nation’s biggest law firms convert the best law students into billable-hour-crazed associates and, occasionally, partners grow to accommodate global organizations, businesses below the $100 million revenue mark that…