Practicing Law on Your Own Accord

Is starting your own practice something you’ve always been interested in pursuing? Oftentimes, the answer to that question is yes for high performing professionals practicing law. The biggest appeal of having your own practice is the freedom and flexibility it offers. Operating from wherever your heart desires in addition to having complete oversight on the clients that you agree to represent all sound amazing as well but they do come with their trials (pun intended). For many, the initial stresses that accompany starting your own practice are well worth the freedom and flexibility that quickly follows.

If starting your own practice does not peak your interest, all is not lost. There are many ways one can take more control of the way they practice within an established firm. Practicing law on your own terms within a firm might seem like a far-fetched idea, but there are many ways you can squeeze increased flexibility into the work you do. Get into the right circles at the office and start suggesting increased flexibility to serve as a means of alleviating depleted engagement and/or productivity.

Practicing law on your own terms doesn’t just start and end within the office, the relationship with your clients is always another environment that offers opportunity for you to shape the way you practice. It is not uncommon to have cut-off times for when a client can reach you, even attorneys need time to themselves and it is okay to create that time. Granted, the way you navigate your relationship with your client may be subject to a certain degree of oversight depending on the firm. Naturally, staying within these guidelines but do not be afraid to explore the flexibility within them.

We as professionals find it very easy to become borderline obsessive with our careers, rightfully so considering our livelihood is attached to it. However, what is not attached to it is your health and happiness. There will always be things that we have to do that are the opposite of enjoyable, but they should not outweigh the amount of things that you do enjoy doing.

The most important factor in all of this is the fact that taking control of the way you practice allows the real reason why you decided to pursue a career in law to come to the forefront and shine like never before. Whatever passion you have that is tied to practicing law may be drowned in long drawn out work processes that take up more time than the component that you enjoy the most. Every attorney has a different balance when it comes to how they want to practice law, you just have to find yours and lay out a game plan for pursuing the balance that’s best for you.

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