{"id":668,"date":"2014-04-15T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/?p=668"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:56:46","slug":"alumni-tips-the-benefits-of-small-firm-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/2014\/04\/15\/alumni-tips-the-benefits-of-small-firm-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Tips: The Benefits of Small Firm Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-669\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/katie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-669\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/katie.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of www.charltonlawyers.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of www.charltonlawyers.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by: Kathleen Charlton, Evening \u201808, Partner at Charlton &amp; Charlton Attorneys at Law<\/p>\n<p>I have worked in small firms since graduating law school. I love the flexibility that it provides to me, as I have a young daughter. I have the ability to choose my hours. I can go home, cook dinner, and work after she goes to bed. I also like that I have the ability to choose the cases that I want to take. For me, the ability to choose my cases was a significant reason for choosing small firm practice.\u00a0 I also love the client interaction that I have. The clients are solely my clients; I am responsible for everything in their cases. Although at times this can be stressful, it brings me a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. There is nothing more rewarding to me than when a client hugs me or sends me a personal \u201cthank you\u201d note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by: Kathleen Charlton, Evening \u201808, Partner at Charlton &amp; Charlton Attorneys at Law I have worked in small firms since graduating law school. I love the flexibility that it provides to me, as I have a young daughter. I have the ability to choose my hours. I can go home, [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/2014\/04\/15\/alumni-tips-the-benefits-of-small-firm-practice\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-juris-features","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.law.duq.edu\/juris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}