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Ten Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Choosing A Practice Area

Ten Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Choosing A Practice Area. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?. People Things Ideas Money/Business. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?. People Employment Entertainment Executive Compensation Family Immigration Trusts & Estates

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Ten Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Choosing A Practice Area

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  1. Ten Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Choosing A Practice Area

  2. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With? • People • Things • Ideas • Money/Business

  3. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With? • People • Employment • Entertainment • Executive Compensation • Family • Immigration • Trusts & Estates • White Collar Criminal

  4. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With? • Things • Asset Finance • Conservation Easements • IP Prosecution • Old Energy Practice • Project Finance • Real Estate Finance • Real Estate Land Use • Real Estate Transactional

  5. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With? • Ideas • Administrative • Antitrust • Appellate • ERISA • IP Licensing • Litigation • New Energy • Tax

  6. 1. What Do You Like to Deal With? • Money/Business • Antitrust • Bankruptcy • Corporate • Healthcare • Insurance Coverage & Defense • International Trade • Securities Litigation

  7. Create Appellate Bankruptcy Litigation Outsourcing White Collar Criminal Enable 40 Act Corporate ERISA Counseling Executive Compensation IP Licensing Real Estate Transactional Tax 2. Do You Want to Create or Enable?

  8. Yes Administrative Corporate Entertainment Executive Compensation IP Real Estate Transactional Tax No Appellate Employment Environmental Family Healthcare Insurance Coverage & Defense Product Liability Project Finance Trusts & Estates White Collar Criminal 3. Do You Mind Facing Moral Conundrums in Your Practice?

  9. Expert Bankruptcy Corporate (New York) Employment ERISA Executive Compensation Family Immigration Patent Litigation Patent Prosecution Tax Trusts & Estates Generalist Corporate (in California) General Litigation 4. Do You Want to Be the Expert or a Generalist?

  10. Gray Areas Family Land Use Litigation Trusts & Estates Concrete Answers 40 Act Administrative Code-Based Practices Executive Compensation Regulatory Securities Tax 5. Do You Prefer to Analyze Gray Areas or Have Concrete Answers?

  11. 6. Who Do You Want to Help and How? • Help The Rich Get Richer (Trusts & Estates) • Help Corporations to Grow (Corporate, Asset & Corporate Finance) • Help Corporations Protect Themselves (Corporate, Litigation, Employment) • Help Distressed Clients (Family, Immigration, Litigation, White Collar Criminal, Bankruptcy)

  12. 7. Do You Mind Dealing With Emotionally Charged Situations? • Emotionally Charged Practices • Class Action Litigation • Employment • Family • Insurance Defense • Trusts & Estates • White Collar Criminal

  13. Necessary Expense Appellate Employment Family Insurance Defense Litigation White Collar Crime Part of the Team Corporate Executive Compensation IP Licensing/Patent Project Finance Real Estate Transactional Tax Trusts & Estates 8. What Relationship Do You Want to Have With Your Clients?

  14. Direct Conflict Corporate (Regulation) Bankruptcy Litigation (Except Smaller Bars) Waiver Litigation 9. Are You Comfortable With an Adversarial Practice?

  15. Important 40 Act Appellate ERISA Executive Compensation IP Prosecution Land Use Tax Trusts & Estates Not Important Bankruptcy Corporate (esp. M&A) Cross Border Transactional Litigation White Collar Criminal 10. How Important Is a Predictable Schedule?

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