The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)

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The Ten Roads to Riches

Oth

er lawyers do ok financially. Most work too hard for ok (or

even very good) hourly pay on fairly dull but necessary functions, like

estate planning, contract or transaction

law,

regulatory

law,

or labor

law. A lifetime of hard work, some frugality, ok investment returns

(Chapter

lO)-the

y may end up with $2 million to $30 million dol-

lars. But at what cost? Family life can suffer since most lawyers bill by

the hour, so many work endlessly.

The

big money is in legal

stealing-

plaintiff's work.

CRUSADER

OR

PIRATE?

Question: Are these guys crusaders or pirates? T he original crusad-

ers left comfy European castles

to

reclaim

Ho

ly Lands from those

they saw as godless and evil. Are PLs bringing evildoers to

justice-

fighting the big and mean

to

help the little and poor?

No

, they're

pirates seeking booty. And if they had their way, they'd rarely step

foot in court.

What

they really want is to bring an action and settle

out

of

court- be paid to go awa

y-basic

thug-like extortion with huge

pay

out

s and little work.

If

you sport a bit

of

the dark side and part

of you likes playing the heavy, this is the best possible road for you.

And you needn 't think

of

yourself as bad. PLs always, always con-

vince themselves they're crusaders and feel great about themselves.

Go down this road and you will too.

But if PLs were really crusaders they wouldn't blackmail.

They

wouldn 't set up cases just to get paid to go away ...