What Family Caregiving Taught Me About Exit Strategies — Including Leaving the Practice of Law
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Free Webinar: The 5-Year Handoff: Designing your exit from the law before it designs you
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Most lawyers know they should think about succession planning.
Most lawyers also postpone it.
Not because it isn’t important — but because the day when you will no longer practice law feels distant.
In the short video below, I share a lesson about exit planning that had nothing to do with law practice.
It came from family caregiving.
When my wife and I invited her parents to live with us, we carefully planned how to bring them into our home. What we didn’t plan was how that arrangement would eventually end. When the situation became untenable, we found ourselves improvising in the middle of a crisis.
The same dynamic plays out in law firms all the time.
Lawyers spend decades building successful practices, but very few intentionally design the transition until the moment arrives. By then, tensions around leadership, ownership, culture, and identity often surface all at once.
The 5-Year Handoff framework shifts succession from emergency planning to intentional leadership transition, addressing ownership, culture, governance, identity, and legacy before misalignment creates fractures.
Wherever you are on the succession timeline — whether you’ve never thought about it, whether you’re five to seven years out, or whether you’re ready to hang the “Gone Fishing” sign tomorrow — there are questions you should already be asking.
Join us for a free 30-minute webinar where we introduce a practical framework for designing a transition that strengthens your firm rather than destabilizes it.
📅 Thursday, March 12 – 4:00 PM Eastern
👉 Click here to register
