1. Not having money to pay rent

2. Not having money to finance cases (even filing fees)

3. Never bringing in my own cases.

4. Letting down my family that relies on me to bring income in.

5. Having to pathetically crawl back to an ID job after failure.

I can be social while I'm at work but I'm generally a withdrawn dude at the end of the day. My health insurance benefits (my employer covers me and my wife) are worth a pretty significant amount and I get life insurance dental 401k etc all covered.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34705591)

Including health insurance filing fees bar fees etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34705839)

seems like your biggest issue is providing for your family for a year or so before those fees hit your checking account. I was in a similarly tough situation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34705886)

Why didn't you go solo after meeting CSLG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34705664)

I don’t have a network of care providers set up like he does, didn’t understand how the lien thing worked, and was scared of all the upfront costs on filing fees and experts. I also live 50 miles from him and most of his referrals, and I have no clue what I’m doing in PI. if I had your skill set it’d be a lot easier.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34705743)

What "ways" are they guarding?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34710270)

#4 is legit if you have young kids or relatives who are relying on you, e.g., a kid who needs food, clothes, etc. or an older, sick relative. That you have to evaluate for yourself. If just a wife, seems minor.

#5 is, IMO a lot of people's worry in these kinds of situations. You're basically putting yourself out there to fail (and people will notice) rather than hiding behind a safe, respectable job. But I suspect you can recover eventually if it flops, and you'll have at least tried.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34706032)

26k in credit lines and 10k in the bank and like 5k in 401k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34706117)

You don't want to die doing ID. All the 40 year old + lawyers I know doing it want to murder themselves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34707111)

FML

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34711351)

I'm not sure I could give up my current autonomy to be another cog in a plaintiffs firm.

My #1 concern by far is money however, but I also value autonomy and not being micromanaged. The solo offer is something my heart wants to do but my brain is telling me I don't have financial security to take such a risk.

I like where I live but obviously would never afford a house here working ID.

I agree with you about 40 year old ID attorneys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34711608)

I'm outgoing, smart enough, and work hard.

Going to make around $225k net this year as a solo. Not sure if that counts as successful or not since I could make more in BIGLAW, but when I left biglaw the options were either leave law entirely or try and be a solo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34708769)

I enjoy solo life in that I'm my own boss and don't need to be a bitch for anyone else. I firmly believe that no self-respecting adult man should be subservient to some other man. However I work like 60 hours most weeks because my practice area is a high volume pseudo-litigation area (immigration, BK, disability, etc). The problem is I'm really hitting a ceiling at 225-250k. I really wish I had learned PI and done that instead.

Either way, I'm saving money and hope to invest it well so in 5-6 years I can just practice part-time as a solo, which would be 180000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34709082)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3799949&forum_id=2#34709117)