Flipping burgers for your clients.

The Legal Bizzle's "How flipping burgers can make you a better lawyer" at his blog, The Bizzle. What did you do before you became a lawyer? According to this post, even it was working in a burger joint, that experience can make you a better lawyer, as in better advisor, better negotiator, better provider of client value. And it just might give you an edge over the competition, too. But don't despair if you went to law school directly, without a stop in the workaday world. You probably have some life experience that you can draw upon for the benefit of your clients. Like this lawyer. And this one. And this one and this one too. Find it and use it.

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Legal Bizzle's "It’s not about the biscuits" on his blog The Bizzle. Legal Bizzle is an in-house lawyer who tells it like it is. In this post, he answers the question "Do you buy law firms, or lawyers?":

For me, the answer is clear: I buy lawyers. The most important thing for me is having an adviser that understands my business, and in particular its commercial drivers and its appetite for risk.

But that's not the half of it. Read the post to learn why he hires the lawyers he does. Then start doing what those lawyers do.