Thinking of Starting Your Own Firm? How Two Lawyers Created Theirs (Without Dipping into Savings)

Imagine winning a rapid defense verdict for your client with only 6 weeks to prepare for trial, only to not be thanked, AND get reprimanded by the managing partner for speaking in a frustrated tone to the junior and paralegal, who you trained up from scratch. 

Imagine not being able to get out of bed for two weeks, and knowing you HAD to do something different.  (Which led you to Google “career coach for lawyers”.)

Imagine being a rising 8th year, knowing the partnership question looms.  You know you don’t want to make partner. You can barely keep your head above water now, and struggle to be as present with your young children as you’d like.  But you don’t know what else you could do or where to begin. 

Listen to this special panel discussion with WILL Alumni Destiny Bounds of Bounds Legal, and Wilder Clements of Clements Employment Law.  They share about their journeys from despair to doing work they love… for themselves.  This is especially for you if you’re feeling helpless and/or if you’re considering starting your own firm.   

As it was a live call, you’ll hear Destiny and Wilder respond to questions from the audience. 

See how Wilder:

• Leveraged a milestone birthday and child starting kindergarten to give themselves permission to explore and dream
• Started their law firm without dipping into any savings! 
• Serves values-aligned business owners, enjoys more time for hiking and being with family and celebrates five years of having their own firm! 

Wilder A. Clements brings experienced and value-driven counsel to purpose-driven businesses and organizations with challenging employment law questions. Wilder is experienced in advising clients on the complexities of federal and state labor and employment law, understands steps businesses and organizations need to take to treat and pay their workers fairly, and serves as an instrumental partner in helping organizations and businesses align purpose with people-first practices.  

Wilder devotes a significant portion of their services to pro bono assistance, including representing LGBTQ+ workers and advising local non-profits on employment law issues.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilderclements/

https://www.instagram.com/clementsemploymentlaw

 

Listen as Destiny Bounds shares how:

• A mental health crisis helped her take a break from her firm.
• Being in community with other women lawyers surprisingly brought her a lot of clarity and comfort. 
• The clouds that obscured her dreams parted, and was able to take massive action, starting not one, but two businesses!

After leaving her role within a large AMLaw 200 nationwide law firm, Destiny started helping small businesses form strong legal foundations, getting their contracts and legal documents prepared, and, essentially, becoming their “outside” in-house counsel, partnering with them throughout each stage of their business. She realized that she LOVED small business law.

She founded Bounds Business Law with a mission to change the soulless legal profession of law into one that will positively impact the community and beyond.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bounds-law-llc/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091839366389

https://www.instagram.com/legal.fluence/ 

 

The WILL Podcast is hosted by Elena Deutsch, a dedicated legal career coach and catalyst.  This podcast is more than a g