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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't need the income, could you do more probono work? Possibly for a population you care about - like battered women etc.? [/quote]

I second this suggestion.  Because it will expand your network of contacts.  In addition, I would dig a bit deeper out of the criminal jury trial world and start thinking of yourself more as a skilled, accomplished advocate, who has the ability and track record to persuade real people (whether jurors, legislators, etc.) that the position or cause you support should also be the one that they support.    [/quote]

Im going to chime in for this option. OP, I had a friend with terminal cancer who was screwed out of tens of thousands of dollars of work he did for a DOCTOR's home and property WHILE HE WAS SICK WITH CANCER. The judge was clearly disgusted with the doctor and his stonewalling and pretense and his mouthpiece lawyer while my friend, who had begun losing muscle mass he was so thin,  had to represent himself in court, and I, his only support could only sit in the back and watch. The case went to mediation and that is where the screwing took place.

Had my friend had someone who would work for him, he could have sued this truly evil man. And that evil man had money.

If you had any idea how lonely it feels to have NO ONE to help while you face the battle of your life against an opponent who has comparitively infinite resources, I think you might jump at the chance to do something good for a truly deserving population. The underpriveledged get SCREWED ALL THE TIME. There are unfathomable injustices that of course we all are aware of and read about but not all of us get to see it from their perspective as I did with my friend. Its one of the most demoralizing things I have ever witnessed, and completely redefined my sense of what fair even means.

My friend was able to get some help figuring out how to approach this through Legal Aid of West Virginia, but then all of a sudden they abruptly closed his case before he went to court. We never figured out why- he would get no answer when he asked. He had approached a number of lawyers who saw the merits of the case but for a variety of reasons did not want to risk engaging without a retainer. It was so awful.

Anyway, try to remember what made you want to become a lawyer in the first place. It sounds like you have passion and you face too many situations where the gatekeepers decree what that passion means. Don't YOU decide what it means? It's your life after all. Why should other people's ideas dominate it?[/quote]

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