The other day I wrote about a financial planner who is doing his small part to improve the lives of the financially oppressed by helping lawyers who, despite making seven figures, are still somehow struggling to get by.
[This article was not written by Murray Gottheil. It was written by a law firm associate somewhere in a Commonwealth country who would like to become a partner in a law firm, and so has decided that it would not be a good idea to publish it under his own name.]
I was doing annual minutes for my teeny tiny corporation today, and I got to thinking:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” ~ from the movie The Princess Bride.
In a recent post on LinkedIn, the author explained that she checks her work email every day while on vacation, and that doing so allows her to relax.
Others chimed in to say they take a similar approach. One person said, “I can’t imagine a total disconnect ever…”
Clients do not like being nickeled and dimed. They can get their heads around paying $750 an hour, but charging them for photocopies annoys them.
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There is an old story about a farmer who was training his horse to eat less food so that he could increase his profits. He gradually reduced the amount of feed that he gave the horse, until it was eating a small fraction of what horses usually eat. He was on the verge of a breakthrough and had visions of patenting his methodology and becoming both famous and fabulously wealthy.
The first part of the title of this article is a quote from my mother, who has repeated these words as far back as I can remember. However, my minimalist effort to conduct research before I write stuff uncovered that the quote is attributed to some fellow named Alan Sheinwald. I really don’t know who stole it from who. But, as Mr. Hayes, my grade nine math teacher, used to say, “it makes no never mind.”
When I became the managing partner of my firm, we hired an excellent general manager, who ultimately became our COO. I will call her Bev.
Bev had a background in business, significant experience in human resources and a great capacity for emotional intelligence, all of which were in short supply among our partners.
I articled for the now defunct law firm of Goodman and Carr. It was a well-regarded firm in its day. Wolfe Goodman was a senior partner and a leading tax lawyer of his era. In my tax rotation, I spent considerable time with him. He made tax sound so interesting that there was even a brief moment in time that I thought I wanted to be a tax lawyer.