http://myshingle.com/2009/01/articles/questions-advice/reader-question-should-i-take-consumer-cases-short-term-even-though-i-want-to-do-business-law-long-term/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://myshingle.com/2009/01/articles/questions-advice/reader-question-should-i-take-consumer-cases-short-term-even-though-i-want-to-do-business-law-long-term/comment-page-1/#comment-3144 Joseph Dang Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:40:27 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2009/01/articles/uncategorized/reader-question-should-i-take-consumer-cases-short-term-even-though-i-want-to-do-business-law-long-term/#comment-3144 Carolyn, I think you described my process to a T, without me ever telling you! I am "general counsel" at a small investment advisor, and the chief compliance officer. I use the term GC loosely since I'm the only counsel here. I wanted to hang a shingle so I surfed, found this site, and the rest is history. What Carolyn laid out is very similar to the plan I have undertaken, and am still executing. I just met with my first prospective client, which happened to be a bankruptcy client (which I have handled before, so I wanted the cash). But you can click my name above for my blog, which is geared towards small businesses in San Diego/California, and of course, since I was a financial planner before and have done estate planning for clients, I will address estate planning issues as it relates to business owners. I am also thinking of setting up a separate blog for estate planning in general. One great thing about a small business blog is that you can write about a bunch of different topics. Learn about copyright trademark, employment law, corporate law, tax. Review leases, mediation clauses, the list is endless. It's like a whole business law firm with many departments, miniaturized into one source. I am still employed with the adviser, so that provides me stability salary wise, but hampers my ability to market and promote, which I will take care of soon once I'm done setting up. If I leave here I might leverage my knowledge of investment advisor regulations and compliance. I am also a minority so I was thinking of attacking that demographic as well. Carolyn really did hit on all my points in this post. Carolyn, I think you described my process to a T, without me ever telling you!
I am “general counsel” at a small investment advisor, and the chief compliance officer. I use the term GC loosely since I’m the only counsel here. I wanted to hang a shingle so I surfed, found this site, and the rest is history. What Carolyn laid out is very similar to the plan I have undertaken, and am still executing. I just met with my first prospective client, which happened to be a bankruptcy client (which I have handled before, so I wanted the cash).
But you can click my name above for my blog, which is geared towards small businesses in San Diego/California, and of course, since I was a financial planner before and have done estate planning for clients, I will address estate planning issues as it relates to business owners.
I am also thinking of setting up a separate blog for estate planning in general. One great thing about a small business blog is that you can write about a bunch of different topics. Learn about copyright trademark, employment law, corporate law, tax. Review leases, mediation clauses, the list is endless. It’s like a whole business law firm with many departments, miniaturized into one source.
I am still employed with the adviser, so that provides me stability salary wise, but hampers my ability to market and promote, which I will take care of soon once I’m done setting up.
If I leave here I might leverage my knowledge of investment advisor regulations and compliance. I am also a minority so I was thinking of attacking that demographic as well. Carolyn really did hit on all my points in this post.

]]> http://myshingle.com/2009/01/articles/questions-advice/reader-question-should-i-take-consumer-cases-short-term-even-though-i-want-to-do-business-law-long-term/comment-page-1/#comment-7452 Joseph Dang Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:40:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/2009/01/articles/uncategorized/reader-question-should-i-take-consumer-cases-short-term-even-though-i-want-to-do-business-law-long-term/#comment-7452 Carolyn, I think you described my process to a T, without me ever telling you! I am "general counsel" at a small investment advisor, and the chief compliance officer. I use the term GC loosely since I'm the only counsel here. I wanted to hang a shingle so I surfed, found this site, and the rest is history. What Carolyn laid out is very similar to the plan I have undertaken, and am still executing. I just met with my first prospective client, which happened to be a bankruptcy client (which I have handled before, so I wanted the cash). But you can click my name above for my blog, which is geared towards small businesses in San Diego/California, and of course, since I was a financial planner before and have done estate planning for clients, I will address estate planning issues as it relates to business owners. I am also thinking of setting up a separate blog for estate planning in general. One great thing about a small business blog is that you can write about a bunch of different topics. Learn about copyright trademark, employment law, corporate law, tax. Review leases, mediation clauses, the list is endless. It's like a whole business law firm with many departments, miniaturized into one source. I am still employed with the adviser, so that provides me stability salary wise, but hampers my ability to market and promote, which I will take care of soon once I'm done setting up. If I leave here I might leverage my knowledge of investment advisor regulations and compliance. I am also a minority so I was thinking of attacking that demographic as well. Carolyn really did hit on all my points in this post. Carolyn, I think you described my process to a T, without me ever telling you!
I am “general counsel” at a small investment advisor, and the chief compliance officer. I use the term GC loosely since I’m the only counsel here. I wanted to hang a shingle so I surfed, found this site, and the rest is history. What Carolyn laid out is very similar to the plan I have undertaken, and am still executing. I just met with my first prospective client, which happened to be a bankruptcy client (which I have handled before, so I wanted the cash).
But you can click my name above for my blog, which is geared towards small businesses in San Diego/California, and of course, since I was a financial planner before and have done estate planning for clients, I will address estate planning issues as it relates to business owners.
I am also thinking of setting up a separate blog for estate planning in general. One great thing about a small business blog is that you can write about a bunch of different topics. Learn about copyright trademark, employment law, corporate law, tax. Review leases, mediation clauses, the list is endless. It’s like a whole business law firm with many departments, miniaturized into one source.
I am still employed with the adviser, so that provides me stability salary wise, but hampers my ability to market and promote, which I will take care of soon once I’m done setting up.
If I leave here I might leverage my knowledge of investment advisor regulations and compliance. I am also a minority so I was thinking of attacking that demographic as well. Carolyn really did hit on all my points in this post.

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