Alternative Career Paths for Lawyers: Maximizing Earnings and Work-Life Balance

Description

• Learn about work-life balance in the legal profession from Harrison's Q&A clip.
• Discover how different government jobs and in-house positions can offer work-life balance for lawyers.
• Explore various career paths like entrepreneurship, auto dealership, and real estate for potential high earnings and work-life balance.
• Understand the challenges attorneys face in achieving work-life balance due to client demands and the nature of the job.
• Gain insights into practice areas that allow for high earnings but may require sacrificing work-life balance.

Transcript

Transcript:

So work-life balance. Unfortunately, if you're practicing law, you can get it in different government jobs and different types of places; different jobs and in-house jobs will give you a work-life balance. You can always increase your earning potential by entering different practice areas and settings. But, being an entrepreneur, I'm amazed just at how well people can do, you can make. Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year working in an auto dealership, selling cars. But you can make a perfect living being a real estate agent and one in the right market. And there are all sorts of things you can do, and those have, can have a goodwill life balance.

The problem with being an attorney and having a work-life balance is it's like saying, I want a work-life balance, but I want to be an on-call emergency room physician or something. Clients always have problems, so you must be able to respond. Now, there are certain practice areas where you can make a lot of money, do well, and be successful without having a work-life balance.

But for the most part, if you're going to be an attorney, you may have to step it up because you're working for others, and that's part of the problem.