Finding The Passion For Your Niche Practice

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Finding the Passion for Your Niche Practice Craig Martin is a Lamson Dugan and Murray lawyer I coach from Omaha. I particularly enjoy working with Craig because he is so interested in learning. I believe he has listened to all my podcasts, including ones in the archive. If you want to listen you can go to this website and listen or download from iTunes there. Here is what Craig recently told me: I had a few hours of windshield time recently and downloaded a number of your podcasts for the drive.  I particularly enjoyed the podcasts in which you interviewed past and current clients about the growth of their practice.  Their passion consistently shone through and in turn made the podcasts memorable. I particularly enjoyed the discussion about how the participants discovered their practice niche.  I purposefully used the term discovered, but for each person the experience seemed unique.  For some, they went into the law passionate about an industry and knew what they wanted to do.  For others, they knew what they loved, but didn’t know how to practice in that area.  It was fun to hear the “ah ha” moment when they discovered how to pursue a practice area about which they were passionate. Contractors who build complex construction projects have to have a “can do” attitude. Occasionally they are building a project that has never been built before. It is one thing to draw it up and another to actually design and construct it. I am reminded of what I have read, seen and heard about the design and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1800s. For many years people wanted to build a bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, but the idea was always thought to be impractical. When it was completed in 1883,  it was the world’s longest suspension bridge. Thirty men, including the bridge designer, lost their lives during the construction. If you want to learn more take a look at this short video clip. I wanted to work for people who built projects like the Brooklyn Bridge.   I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.