Steve Huey’s Blog

What do lawyers and your mom have in common?  They both want to protect you.  Your mom tells you to wear a helmet, take your jacket, look both ways before you cross the street etc.  All good advice just as your lawyer gives you good advice.  In most cases you should take their advice.

Sometimes moms can be too protective.  My wife once spent 20 minutes dressing my son for outdoor play in the winter.  It took 20 minutes to put on all the clothing, get a second pair of socks, get a hat, a winter coat, a set of gloves, good boots and then finally he was ready to go out.  Open went the door and in 15 minutes he was ready to come in and play with toys inside.  Sometimes lawyers can be too protective as well.

In some companies they call legal, “The business prevention team.”  Too much power is given to a team or person who gets paid to avoid all risks.  At some point it is not worth the effort to play.  This is a terrible problem in that business is about risk and taking risk.  Risks are minimized based on experience, and consideration of the people involved.

So what is the “1 risk” lawyers do not warn you about?  The risk of not trying.  See if you give them too much power over you, like your mom, they will protect you.  You will never skin a knee or worse break an arm.  But I would argue you will never live.  Like life business is about taking risk.  Remember no risk – no reward.

Some risk is ok.  Go ahead jump in.

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