“My clients are my clients. I am their point of contact and I understand their dreams and their desires,” explains Idaho criminal defense attorney William Young.

“We’re working together towards a resolution that allows them to go out and be productive members of society…and at the end of the day, my success is based on how hard I work on each individual case — it’s not based on anyone else.”

Florida-based False Claims Act (qui tam) attorney Audrey Schechter knew early in her life that she was going to be a lawyer.

Around age 12, Schechter recognized that her greatest strengths were in the humanities, and she says that she saw a career in law as her opportunity to “make an impact and to help create a just world.”

Aside from the general pursuit of justice, Schechter says that she’s always been attracted to legal quandaries as exercises in intellect. “I like exercising my brain,” she explains. “I like thinking through fact patterns, coming up with good approaches to cases, and I like that not everybody can do that.”

In his tenure at Bos & Glazier, attorney Brad Glazier has been recognized as both a “Michigan Super Lawyer” since 2006, and as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in the specialty category of labor and employment law since 2007. He was also selected to become a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and, in 2017, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Glazier says that it’s his focus and continued studies in rhetoric and persuasion that give his practice a competitive advantage. “I would say that I am a student of the law and a student of how to persuade judges and juries,” Glazier says. “I think I spend more time than other lawyers do trying to hone my skills of persuasion.”

Attorney Tim Del Castillo of Castle Law California Employment Counsel says that being an attorney is the “greatest job in the world because I get to think, read, and write for a living, which is pretty cool for somebody who likes to do those things.”

Del Castillo (which translates from Spanish literally as “of the castle”) points out that the image of the castle invokes imagery of “defending businesses and people and their livelihoods,” which he says is a great metaphor for his work as an employment litigator. Del Castillo says that using the English translation of his name makes the firm easier to scale, sell, and add partners to down the line.

As a Baltimore-based tax attorney, Juda Gabaie says that most of the time when new clients come to his office they are already facing a problem.

Gabaie says that few business owners know how to prepare themselves for that side of business ownership, and that’s where the strategies provided by his solo practice come into play in a major way for his clients. “These small businesses go through a lot just to make their businesses work,” he says, “and we’re here to try to make it easy for them.”