These days, we are unfortunately inundated with news of layoffs in the professions. This is a difficult time, fraught with anxiety and even fear. We are inundated, as well, with an overwhelming array of advice, which, like all advice, is worthwhile only if it fits one's personal abilities or predilections.

We have, now, literally thousands of lawyers and accountants looking for guidance through a very dark night. Most, of course, are job hunting, and the advice in that category has filled books with stuff that sometimes works, but not always. There are those who are frozen in the headlights. It seems incomprehensible that after all that education and training that there are no jobs in this wide world.

Then there are the entrepreneurial lawyers and accountants who see this situation as an opportunity to start up on their own. These are the brave and hardy ones who remember that every one of the AMLAW 100 and Big Four accounting firms started out as solos or partnerships of a few other hardy souls, which is a message that should help sustain all startups.

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