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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-20-06 02:06 PM
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16. Although I agree with the majority of your post
Some sole practitioners choose to go out on their own in order to have office hours and a billable rate that that they wish to operate (rather than have a dictated rate/billable hours/in office availability) and wish to have more control over which cases they will accept (rather than having senior staff members inform them of who they will represent and whether or not they will bill the client) and do not want to participate in the over-head game that larger firms engage in (how many staff members will each partner pay for/who pays how much for supplies/utilities/copies/new equipment/continuing education trips/insurance coverage/etc.).

You make is sound like the only reason a person would practice law on their own is because nobody would hire them. I disagree with that.
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  -What's YOUR SocioEconomicStatus Class? nickshepDEM  Dec-20-06 12:46 PM   #0 
  - I said Lower Middle because I work at home  Blue_In_AK   Dec-20-06 12:52 PM   #1 
  - interesting follow-up  Ellis Wyatt   Dec-20-06 12:53 PM   #2 
  - Strictly on income would vary greatly by where someone lives...  liberaliraqvet26   Dec-20-06 06:54 PM   #29 
  - Upper-middle class BUT a lot has to do  wakeme2008   Dec-20-06 12:54 PM   #3 
  - 22 of 24 respondents are doing pretty damned well here.  Seabiscuit   Dec-20-06 12:59 PM   #4 
  - I wish she'd post some of those pics here.  nickshepDEM   Dec-20-06 01:05 PM   #5 
  - All lawyers are not upper-middle class  Debi   Dec-20-06 01:07 PM   #6 
  - What type of law do you practice?  nickshepDEM   Dec-20-06 01:08 PM   #7 
  - My husband is a sole practicioner  Debi   Dec-20-06 01:15 PM   #9 
  - Ha!  Coyote_Bandit   Dec-20-06 01:57 PM   #14 
     - Although I agree with the majority of your post  Debi   Dec-20-06 02:06 PM   #16 
        - Those certainly are good reasons  Coyote_Bandit   Dec-20-06 03:01 PM   #21 
  - thank you! it bugs me that we're *named* as upper-middle  MrCoffee   Dec-20-06 01:55 PM   #13 
  - Don't tell me you help people w/out picking their wallets in the process?  Debi   Dec-20-06 01:57 PM   #15 
  - All small business isn't middle-middle either  sandnsea   Dec-20-06 06:54 PM   #30 
  - Dropping rapidly  against all enemies   Dec-20-06 01:14 PM   #8 
  - Depends on what you are trying to measure  Coyote_Bandit   Dec-20-06 01:20 PM   #10 
  - Yeah, we would be middle middle except we own a farm  Hardrada   Dec-20-06 07:02 PM   #31 
  - Well, at least no one is homeless or incarcerated.  nickshepDEM   Dec-20-06 01:34 PM   #11 
  - I doubt many homeless/incarcerated are sitting in front of a computer  Debi   Dec-20-06 02:07 PM   #17 
  - Well, interesting, though those aren't a measure of class. n/t  Infinite Hope   Dec-20-06 01:49 PM   #12 
  - went from middle-middle  leftofthedial   Dec-20-06 02:18 PM   #18 
  - Hard to place myself  Trajan   Dec-20-06 02:51 PM   #19 
  - I have a question that always seems to get me. How do poor people access the internet to post on DU  Sapere aude   Dec-20-06 02:56 PM   #20 
  - public library?  MrCoffee   Dec-20-06 03:33 PM   #24 
  - One, two or more hours of free Internet access...  KansDem   Dec-20-06 03:33 PM   #25 
  - sacrifice and budgeting  kineneb   Dec-20-06 11:30 PM   #39 
  - Lower Middle Class. Prefer the term "gentile poverty".  PassingFair   Dec-20-06 03:06 PM   #22 
  - Weren't "blue-collar workers" considered "middle class" at one time?  KansDem   Dec-20-06 03:32 PM   #23 
  - middle-lower, (hopefully) soon-to-be upper-lower.  Lady Effingbroke   Dec-20-06 04:20 PM   #26 
  - Chronically sub-rich a.k.a. stuck between middle-middle and upper-middle  slackmaster   Dec-20-06 05:31 PM   #27 
  - Time to dump the slavemaster, Slackmaster?  Seabiscuit   Dec-20-06 08:14 PM   #33 
  - I have been lower lower class to lower middle class  LWolf   Dec-20-06 06:44 PM   #28 
  - Middle-Middle business owners  GoneOffShore   Dec-20-06 07:02 PM   #32 
  - I put lower-middle because.....  trayfoot   Dec-20-06 09:28 PM   #34 
  - I'm a teacher, but I certainly don't consider myself "lower" middle class. nt  Clarkie1   Dec-20-06 09:34 PM   #35 
  - Most of us are actually working class  MN Against Bush   Dec-20-06 09:54 PM   #36 
  - I didn't see 'International Jewel Thief' listed anywhere.  tinfoilinfor2005   Dec-20-06 10:09 PM   #37 
  - lower-lower: need to include the disabled and their caregivers there  kineneb   Dec-20-06 11:21 PM   #38 
  - So where would Robin Hood fit in?  Seabiscuit   Dec-21-06 03:50 PM   #40 
 

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