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1 Ten Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Choosing A Practice Area
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2 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?
People Things Ideas Money/Business

3 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?
People Employment Entertainment Executive Compensation Family Immigration Trusts & Estates White Collar Criminal

4 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?
Things Asset Finance Conservation Easements IP Prosecution Clean-Tech/Nanotechnology Project Finance Real Estate Finance Real Estate Land Use Real Estate Transactional

5 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?
Ideas Administrative Antitrust Appellate ERISA IP Licensing Litigation Alternative Energy Tax

6 1. What Do You Like to Deal With?
Money/Business Antitrust Bankruptcy Corporate Healthcare Insurance Coverage & Defense International Trade Securities Litigation Finance

7 2. Do You Want to Create or Enable?
Appellate Bankruptcy Litigation Outsourcing White Collar Criminal Enable 40 Act Corporate ERISA Counseling Executive Compensation IP Licensing Real Estate Transactional Tax

8 3. Do You Mind Facing Moral Conundrums in Your Practice?
Yes Administrative Corporate Entertainment Executive Compensation IP Real Estate Transactional Tax No Appellate Employment Environmental Family Healthcare Insurance Coverage & Defense Product Liability Project Finance Trusts & Estates White Collar Criminal

9 4. Do You Want to Be the Expert or a Generalist?
Bankruptcy Corporate (New York)-Fund Formation (40 Act) Employment ERISA Executive Compensation Family Immigration Patent Litigation Patent Prosecution Tax Trusts & Estates Healthcare Generalist Corporate (in California) General Litigation

10 5. Do You Prefer to Analyze Gray Areas or Have Concrete Answers?
Family Land Use Litigation Trusts & Estates Concrete Answers 40 Act Administrative Code-Based Practices Executive Compensation Regulatory Securities Tax

11 6. Who Do You Want to Help and How?
Help The Rich Get Richer (Trusts & Estates) Help Corporations to Grow (Corporate, Asset & Corporate Finance) Help Corporations Protect Themselves (Corporate, Litigation, Employment) Help Distressed Clients (Family, Immigration, Litigation, White Collar Criminal, Bankruptcy)

12 7. Do You Mind Dealing With Emotionally Charged Situations?
Emotionally Charged Practices Class Action Litigation Employment Family Insurance Defense Trusts & Estates White Collar Criminal

13 8. What Relationship Do You Want to Have With Your Clients?
Necessary Expense Appellate Employment Family Insurance Defense Litigation White Collar Crime Part of the Team Corporate Executive Compensation IP Licensing/Patent Project Finance Real Estate Transactional Tax Trusts & Estates

14 9. Are You Comfortable With an Adversarial Practice?
Direct Conflict Corporate (Regulation) Bankruptcy Litigation (Except Smaller Bars) Waiver Litigation

15 10. How Important Is a Predictable Schedule?
40 Act Appellate ERISA Executive Compensation IP Prosecution Land Use Tax Trusts & Estates Not Important Bankruptcy Corporate (esp. M&A) Cross Border Transactional Litigation White Collar Criminal

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