Lunch Conversation Led Two Lawyers to Form Their Own Firm
A lunch conversation at a trial lawyers conference in 2008 led two female attorneys to form their own firm.
Leslie McPadden makes a point of sitting with people she doesn’t know at such events, and she struck up a conversation with Rosa Rebimbas, recounts the Connecticut Law Tribune.
It turned out that Rebimbas, then five years out of law school, had recently launched a solo general practice. But today the two women are in practice together, which gives both more flexibility to balance their work and personal lives.
Working together requires more compromise and flexibility, and, in general, a businesslike attitude is a must:
“I have found that some females become too personally invested in clients or staff to the point that they can’t make difficult decisions,” says Rebimbas. “You have to separate being a friend from being an attorney.”
