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Work as play/ Play as work.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  For fewer than two years between leaving the Maryland Public Defender's Office and becoming my own boss, I worked at a civil trial law firm. I learned many good things there. However, I realized that I would be able to spread my wings the farthest by being my own boss. Without a boss, no longer did anyone urge me to wear my suit jacket when meeting with clients, nor to work in a gray-feeling and cramped building with an uncomfortable winter draft whirling through my basement townhouse office for months on end; that is not what I am about. Employers, take heed: Such unnecessary formalities and physical discomfort do not make for the highest performing staff.  Before we even had furniture delivered to my duo practice with Jay Marks, we already had potential clients coming through our doors...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).