On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:07:42 -0000, Dave Platt wrote:

What's the old story? Oh, yeah. Lawyer moves from the East Coast
back to a small frontier town, back sometime in the 1800's. Six
months later, he's nearly destitute... nobody in town needs a lawyer.

So, he writes to an old school friend of his, and encourages his
friend to move to the same town and open a competing legal practice.

Ten years later, they are both sufficiently wealthy to retire in
comfort.

That old saw, coupled with the "if you build it, they will come"
didn't work when I retired from an over-full desk of cases in the
Federal service to an empty desk and lots of scrounging as a sole
practitioner in the private sector.

I loved doing the legal work. I hated running the business.

And "they" didn't come - I had to go out and snag them.

I hated that, too. So I retired "for real" and do just about as
much (free) legal consulting as I feel like doing.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

Retired and loving every minute of it....
Work was getting in the way of my hobbies