So You Want To Be A Lawyer

About the Book

After I began to practice, I realized that the attorneys that I practiced with were more often than not in a fowl mood.  Some were never cheerful or pleasant.  I enjoyed most of the work involved in my practice, but many of my associates did not.  After about nine months, I decided that the main problem with the profession was that there were too many attorneys.  The pressure of having to compete for clients and advertise just to survive made it unbearable for nearly every one I met. For example, I had a friend who had quit a lucrative position with an insurance agency to attend law school and, then, to practice law.  We would go to lunch together on many occasions.  He had a wife, who worked full time and they had several children. The conversion at lunch always turned into his complaining about the lack of business or fees for his practice.  He complained so much that I got to the point I didn’t enjoy going to lunch with him anymore. 

About the Author

Phillip Estes, BS, MBA, CDP, CCP, JD

The author is a seasoned counselor and management consultant, who has provided services to such distinguished companies as IBM, Tyson Foods, BFI, and Phelps-Dodge, to name a few.  He has written numerous articles that have been published in legal publications on subjects ranging from the Internet to computer security to identity theft.  He, also, has over twenty-five years experience as an adjunct faculty member teaching for such institutions as the University of Alabama, Jacksonville State University, and Faulkner University in their BBA, MBA and Law curriculums.  He, currently, is representing thousands of clients in dozens of cases that are pending against Monsanto for PCB contamination in a series of  the largest mass tort actions that have ever been brought in the U.S. with damages of over $700 million having been paid by the defendants to date.