Came to brag anonymously. Just had year end accounting meeting- first full year in business for myself. gave myself a bonus that exceeded my entire associate salary at my last firm. F working for other people!

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Good job! 👏🏻

Take care of your staff, and they will take care of you!

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How’d you get more than 50-60 cases in your first year

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I love it. I want to make the jump too. Maybe in 2025 once I have some more trial experience.

Great job! I just started my solo journey last month. I hope to be making a similar post next year around this time.

Things are going well! We just signed up our first wrongful death case last week. Last month, we landed a big tractor trailer case. I’m loving the journey and freedom.

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Amazing and congrats. How many trials did you have? How many cases settled?

Trials 0 this year, we fully prepped for 1 settled the day before (clients choice), not sure cases settled in total good idea to run a report on that! Guessing prob 50 -60 total

Wow amazing. How many hours are you working per week on average. Are you able to take vacations or is the new solo life so great that you rarely take vacations?

Congratulations, onwards and upwards!!

Wow this is really amazing to hear OP. I agree with you, working for other people really sucks. If you can work for yourself and make the same if not more, it would be stupid not to.

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