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Law Students: Why you should think about starting your own firm immediately
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If you are a law student in a race to get the "best" big firm jobs available out of law school, consider the following list of reasons why you might be better off shunning the competition, and instead focusing on gaining the tools necessary to succeed on your own, by your own terms.
- If you think your time is not your own in law school, do you think it will be better or worse once you are tracking billable hour?
- If you are tempted by the 100-150k starting salary that will allow you to stop living like a starving student, could your jump in lifestyle ultimately be a career jail you build for yourself?
- Would you rather spend years doing the partners' dirty work, or do the dirty work for yourself? Either way you are in for some dirty work. You might as well benefit.
- Are you looking for job stability, or do you want to be employed at the whims of others? The only real job security is self-employment.
- Do you want to have a boss or be your own boss?
- If you plan to start your own firm eventually, do you think it would be better to do it while you are fresh, or after a firm has drained you through a partnership vetting program?
I can personally vouch for the possibility of starting a law practice directly out of law school. While it is not for everybody, there is never a better time to start than when you are fresh.
If you are a 2L or 3L and thinking about it, feel free to contact me to discuss your options and logistics.
For more info: In future articles I will outline how I started my own law firm with no prior law firm experience, and only an externship at the prosecutors office during the last semester of my third year. You can find my at my website, http://www.duiattorney.com, or call me at my office at 480-951-3200.
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