Posted on June 18th, 2019
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What’s up fellow entrepreneurs? John Fagerholm again with METAL Law Group. Today I want to talk about why I became an attorney.
It’s a question that people ask me quite a bit, and I know the moment that I decided to be an attorney.
Previous to being an attorney, I was just a struggling entrepreneur. I was a guy that had some failures and some successes, but there was one particular incident where a partner of mine got me into a bunch of trouble, and I got sued by a bank, and that was such a hard hit to someone that was just struggling and trying to get a business off the ground that I ended up going back to work, and when I was at work, I went back to work full time, and when I was at work I got a call from an attorney, a second attorney, even after this case was over, and it terrified me speaking to this guy.
It turns out he was only trying to figure out where the partner of mine was, because he had a lawsuit for him, not for me.
But once we got off the phone, I sat there for a few minutes thinking, “Wow, why did that scare me so much? Why do attorneys have so much power?” And I decided, you know what? I’m going to become an attorney so I don’t ever have this problem or get this feeling again, just from a phone call or a letter from some attorney.
So I moved to California, got my law degree, passed the bar, and started representing entrepreneurs because I wanted to defend them just like I wanted to defend myself and my own businesses.
But you know what I found out after practicing law very shortly is, how the laws are geared against entrepreneurs and business owners, especially the employment laws.
That’s kind of what led me to focus on the employment law and all the labor type things that I do now. So, in closing, entrepreneurs are what makes this country great, and it’s just a shame that California, and even the United States government now, doesn’t focus on building up entrepreneurs.
So even though the deck is stacked against you, keep up the good struggle, everybody, because we’re the ones that make … We’re the ones that make the economy turn. We’re the ones that create jobs.
Till next time.
