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Be brutally honest with me. Is my plan for employment flawed?
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Re: Be brutally honest with me. Is my plan for employment flawed?
I see a couple of issues, mainly:
You will only be able to get court orders in states where you get licensed, so you will probably still have to use outside attorneys;
Law School will definitely not teach you how to scale your business. Law School will teach you to be overly cautious and to imagine every risk possible materializing. (Lawyers and entrepreneurs literally speak different languages.)
Finally, Law School is a rather long investment. You may be able to service immigration clients by becoming an Immigration Accredited Representative, which you can do in several weeks to a couple of months. PM to discuss further.
Good luck whatever you decide.
You will only be able to get court orders in states where you get licensed, so you will probably still have to use outside attorneys;
Law School will definitely not teach you how to scale your business. Law School will teach you to be overly cautious and to imagine every risk possible materializing. (Lawyers and entrepreneurs literally speak different languages.)
Finally, Law School is a rather long investment. You may be able to service immigration clients by becoming an Immigration Accredited Representative, which you can do in several weeks to a couple of months. PM to discuss further.
Good luck whatever you decide.
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Re: Be brutally honest with me. Is my plan for employment flawed?
OP here. Thank you for the reply!
I should have specified: we only work with one state. There is only one state in the US which requires court orders to release a birth record for a deceased person.
It's the bane of our existence, but it pays well!
Are you an Immigration Accredited Representative?
I should have specified: we only work with one state. There is only one state in the US which requires court orders to release a birth record for a deceased person.
It's the bane of our existence, but it pays well!Are you an Immigration Accredited Representative?
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Re: Be brutally honest with me. Is my plan for employment flawed?
OP here again. I just googled Immigration Accredit Representative and I don't think it would help me here. We help people from the US go elsewhere, not the other way around.
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ninthcircuitattorney
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Re: Be brutally honest with me. Is my plan for employment flawed?
Seeing that you use counsel in just one state and you don't practice U.S. immigration law, law school would make more sense, but it still seems like over investing.
I loved law school and would do it again. But to be frank, it may be that you are simply over paying for your current counsel. I'm sure she is a wonderful person, but the.lawyer market is such that you can find someone who is licensed to do simple, routine work for a lot less than $3000 + (especially if it's consistent work). You may want to hire a recent grad, explain the procedure to them, and pay them market rates. (I have been able to do this plenty of times.).
Nevertheless, you may love law school, like I did.
At any rate, congratulations on building a successful niche business. No easy feat. Just out of curiosity, what countries do you work on?
I loved law school and would do it again. But to be frank, it may be that you are simply over paying for your current counsel. I'm sure she is a wonderful person, but the.lawyer market is such that you can find someone who is licensed to do simple, routine work for a lot less than $3000 + (especially if it's consistent work). You may want to hire a recent grad, explain the procedure to them, and pay them market rates. (I have been able to do this plenty of times.).
Nevertheless, you may love law school, like I did.
At any rate, congratulations on building a successful niche business. No easy feat. Just out of curiosity, what countries do you work on?
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