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How to Start A Practice <i>What Do I Do Next?</i>

By Bruce W. Marcus
June 02, 2009

These days, we are unfortunately inundated with news of layoffs in the legal and legal marketing professions. This is a difficult time, fraught with anxiety and even fear. We are inundated, as well, with an overwhelming array of advice, which, like all advice, is only worthwhile if it fits one's personal abilities or predilections.

We have, now, literally thousands of lawyers and accountants looking for guidance through a very dark night. Most, of course, are job hunting, and the advice in that category has filled books with stuff that sometimes works, but not always. There are those who are frozen in the headlights. It seems incomprehensible that after all that education and training, there are no jobs in this wide world.

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