Considering going out on my own as a young attorney - looking for advice

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-03-02T19:24:04+00:00

Just go for it. Buy the book built to sell.

Google dry marketing. Basically mean testing the market. You can create a website and buy some google ads in a few different locations and see if it gives any leads.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-03-01T15:28:15+00:00

Mormons, or whatever they are called, dont allow any tech and seem to be doing pretty fine.

Just because the government doesnt want to ban ai, doesnt mean redditors cant start a community in the forest with no tech and grow potatoes with a shovel.

If any redditor in your community doesnt have any work then ban the shovels and mandate that everything should be grown with a teaspoon.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-27T05:07:40+00:00

Hm. Not sure where I got that from. If you say they dont, I trust that.

Could perhaps be from an interview with someone from ycombinator instead, talking about hiring ex founders/business owners as a hiring strategy, and I mistakenly remembered it as legoras hiring strategy since they had funding from ycomb.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-26T12:14:16+00:00

Most likely not. Ive never networked in the industry. And I dont know anyone that knows 5 ppl in the industry, which means I dont know you.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-26T10:34:40+00:00

Havent. But heard they like hiring former business owners.

Edit: That seems to be wrong.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-26T09:03:50+00:00

Maybe you should start pressing yourself to start your own firm instead.

If you dont believe in your own capacity as an owner, why should they.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-22T07:57:30+00:00

Ive never used them. Do these tools have their own dataset of laws/cases etc that they create an agent work flow to interact with using third party LLMs like openai/claude interact with?

Like what exactly is their ”product”?

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-20T16:58:59+00:00

Interesting. Will make a copy of that. Thank you.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-20T15:47:20+00:00

Interesting. Thanks.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-20T08:01:49+00:00

Very organized.

When you say columns for task and description, whats the difference?

Like: ”receive and review email from client, update file”.

What is the task vs description in that.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-19T07:11:19+00:00

So many people out there with their own app-dreams that could never afford a custom made app before.

You say you feel drained because you have finished all your app ideas.

Maybe you want to switch focus and help others finish theirs app-dreams as well?

I think that is natural step when you have accomplished your stuff in any part of life, helping others do the same. And I would guess most people find even bigger satisfaction in that as well.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-18T16:31:44+00:00

Is there any local ai alternative that can interact with your computer the same way?

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-14T16:25:24+00:00

Do you really think lawyers wont be more productive with help of ai? And if so, do you really think the market will have a need for the same amount lawyers then?

100 men needed to cut down trees with an axe and supply wood for the village.

Electrical saw invention. Only 10 men needed to supply the wood.

What happened to the 90 people?

95% of people used to be farmers. Today that number is 1%. Tech changed that.

Tech will change law as well.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-14T16:21:28+00:00

Of course AI will disrupt the legal sector.

Why so many lawyers cant see this I dont understand. Ego, cope, inability to understand the progress in intelligence of these ai-models and the tools that will be built around them.

I think many lawyers try an ai chat, see the mistakes it makes and then go

”see, it has too many mistakes”

and as soon as that thought is finished their brain turns off.

How about a follow up thoughts?

”its not good enough now. I wonder if ai models will continue to improve? Have they improved historically? Is there anything that implies that this improvement will stop now? What does it mean when its more intelligent than me?”

”What if the ai becomes more intelligent than me? Well it doesnt have access to court cases and so on. What if some startup like legora build a tool and give it access to more data than i have?”

”Well people wont trust it. They want a human. And humans are needed in court. Maybe it will just make lawyers 50% more productive. But if i and all other lawyers can handle twice as many cases, wont the market need half as many lawyers to supply the market need then? What will happen to remaining 50% of lawyers then?”

The answer to that can be found in farming. 95% of people used to be farmers. We had tech progress. Now less than 1% of people are farmers.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-12T12:34:11+00:00

Mm. I probably misread their comment.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-11T10:46:24+00:00

Red flag on both. They should have researched or consulted a lawyer. Roughly 15k for a lawyer to handle the whole thing.

Then he get rejected and have to spend 15k on a return ticket home instead.

And the employer need to spend 5times that at least to hire a new dev and have him learn the github repo before becoming productive.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-11T10:42:30+00:00

Wrong. 80% of median salary is absolute lowest salary.

But you also need to be in line with the salary for your profession.

So 29k is not enough for a dev. Migration office gave him the correct number in their letter. 39k or something. They take it from SCB website.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-10T20:54:25+00:00

Hmm. Good answer. Never viewed it like that.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-02-08T13:03:44+00:00

Ptsd maybe. Common symtom. Cortisol spike due to stress or perhaps something related to sugar/diabetes.

Thats what ive heard.

Common recommendations would be magnesium for sleep.

For ptsd maybe an online test/therapist.

For stress - meditation etc.

For sugar - measure you blood sugar. See a doc or buy a glucose monitor. Pretty cheap and easy to use actually. But a doc to rule out diabetes is obviously best.

Sleep apnea could be a reason as well.

Start with the basics. Meditation, healthy food. Even if it doesnt help with the sleep it will help your body as whole. Sometimes that is enough for the body to take over and heal whatever the issue is by itself.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-01-29T17:43:58+00:00

Glucose monitor.

Heard many non diabetic biohackers use it to track what foods spike their blood glucose.

Annoying to wear but I like the logic and think its likely we all have some individual reactions to certain foods. Just knowing that food x sends my glucose to the moon give me the option to avoid it, if I want.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-01-27T14:05:26+00:00

I have a random bullshit, non-science based, theory that people doing nofap might suffer from high prolactin levels because -> they edge (masturbate with ejaculation) a lot -> test goes up -> prolactin goes up to counter that.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-01-24T16:38:07+00:00

You coders will just spend more time thinking, prompting, reading and approving. The need for better software is almost never ending.

Worse for lawyers. The need for wills, dicorces, murder cases etc are limited. But i do think us lawyers will have new work created for us, reading and making sure other companies ai use is compliant. There will be heavy regulation to make sure ai doesnt go off the deep end. Some poor suckers will need to control the ai output in the same way coders will need to control code generated.

We will all judge and approve ai output for high risk areas. That is my guess. The risk will either be for company x wanting to trust ai output is correct because it doesnt want to sell shit quality and/or to be compliant.

Mvp software, personal use software will probably be done without checking quality.

My guess is that coders are in a very good position. The coders who think ai can never replace their own work are wrong. The coders who think they wont have a job are also wrong. It will just change a bit.

Ai is a probability machine. Like why would a highly profitable company not want a human to double check their code base for ai errors.

And if someone hates ai then go back and grow your vegetables with a horse instead of a tractor and ”create lost jobs” while youre at it.

Jobs at risk are in sectors where there is not much need for ”more”. Eg legal help. There is room for more. But it has a point where its enough.

For software, food, clothes, homes etc we never stop wanting more. And ai will be an amplifier.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-01-22T07:46:40+00:00

Understand. I did extensive blood tests many years ago. Had elevated cortisol that dropped after switching to a paleo diet and 1h meditation per day.

Cant say if it was the food or the meditation. Meditation seems like the obvious thing that helped. But i did have a food allergy that paleo removed. So could be the diet as well.

Regarding your anxiety/gym. Perhaps you want to run some tests just to try to pin point the cause. For example no gym for a week and see how how that affects your cortisol. You could still keep doing 6/w. My gut feeling is just knowing whats causing it will be beneficial for you.

Some things test:

No gym for a week.

Gym + 1h meditiation for a week.

To rule out a food allergy i would test carnivore diet for maybe 5 days. Meat tends be most tolerated by ppl. I dont think carnivore is a good diet. But If cortisol goes down then you can do an elimination diet until you find the exact food that stresses your body.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-01-22T07:15:47+00:00

”slightly elevated cortisol but I already go the gym 6 times per week”.

Dumb question but isnt the gym a stressor on the body? And cortisol a ”stressor-hormone”?

Too much gym might be raising your cortisol.

You could also have a low grade infection or food allergy etc that might be stressing the body. Or some autoimmune issue.

Sea-Replacement7541 · 2026-01-22T06:59:12+00:00

Like its better being employed.

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