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one thing i say to my clients is that
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hiring a lawyer is sort of like hiring
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a taxi cab driver an hour away from your
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destination in a foreign country
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and you’re getting in the car and it’s
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scary and what our job as lawyers is not
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only to take them to the destination
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safely
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sound and intact but to assure them the
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entire way
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that we got this to give them regular
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updates
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regular communications in this you know
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so that they’re
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confident that we have this the entire
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way because like if you’re if you’re
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traveling from the airport and it’s a
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dangerous ride you get to your
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destination safely you don’t
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you know you don’t consider it a good
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experience you want to feel the entire
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way
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that my driver my lawyer has got it
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it’s taking me safe to my destination
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and that’s what i try to emphasize
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in my representation i try to emphasize
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that with my employees
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and that’s that’s what i shoot for every
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time
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so i’m pretty fortunate i’ve got a legal
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career that i really enjoy and you know
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you hear lots of stories about people
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who go
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to law school become lawyers and then
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flee the profession mostly because
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their early jobs their early career
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experiences were not
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good or they hated certain aspects of
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their job or
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they didn’t enjoy the particular clients
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that they were getting or whatever it
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was
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um for me i represent individual people
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with
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real issues businesses you know other
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types of things
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client comes to me i help them through
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whatever situation they have
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usually they’re happy with my service
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and they happily pay their bill and then
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they refer other people to me and it’s
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this very rewarding
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self-reinforcing cycle of you know
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people come to you and you take care of
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them and then they send their friends to
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you and it’s
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it’s rewarding
Chicago, IL business lawyer Steven Schroeder talks about the philosophy that guides his work as well as the most rewarding aspect of his practice.