Paige A. Greenlee founded the Florida firm Greenlee Law PLLC in 2014 with the goal of providing...
Adriana Linares is a law practice consultant and legal technology coach. After several years at two of...
Published: | March 27, 2025 |
Podcast: | New Solo |
Category: | Practice Management , Solo & Small Practices |
Get inspired and stay inspired as a solo legal practitioner. Guest Paige Greenlee started her firm, Greenlee Law PLLC, in 2014 and is still going strong on her own. Hear how she does it. Keeping the lights on, and keeping track of cases, business, even contract help is a full load, but you can do it.
Having worked for large firms, Greenlee realized she wanted to control her own business, use the technology that worked for her, and manage her own calendar and cases. But as so many have noted, you learn the law in law school – not business management.
Hear how Greenlee leaned on family experiences, mentors, and her own trial and error to keep the lights on, keep the cases coming in the door, and stay organized and efficient.
Here’s a hint, a lot of running a solo practice comes down to making a business decision and then outsourcing the implementation. Greenlee learned to delegate tasks, including accounting and technology management. And as she started to build her practice, she learned to find and hire the right assistants to manage day-to-day duties. She relies heavily on tech tools – the right tools, not cheap imitations – to eliminate the forest of paper documents that comes her way daily.
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Adriana Linares:
Welcome to another episode of New Solo on Legal Talk Network. I’m Adriana Linares. I’m your host. I’m a legal technology consultant and trainer, and with me today is Paige Greenlee. Paige is a solo practitioner in Tampa, Florida who runs a pretty successful law firm, quite successful, and I thought she’d be a great guest today to get us inspired about being a solo, staying solo and teaching us a lot of lessons about running a very busy litigation practice. Hey Paige,
Paige Greenlee:
Good morning.
Adriana Linares:
How are you?
Paige Greenlee:
I’m good, how are you?
Adriana Linares:
I’m doing great, and I’m excited to have you on and talk to us about just how you do it. And I’ve had a lot of conversations in this first quarter of the year with attorneys that are deciding to go solo or having a hard time staying solo because sometimes it can be a little bit tough, but I know that you run a successful practice, you have a crazy busy life, yet you always have time for yourself, for your mom. You go on a lot of trips with your mom and I think people want to learn how to do that. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself to get us started.
Paige Greenlee:
Well, as you said, I am a solo practitioner in Tampa, Florida. My practice area focus is commercial litigation. I’ve been solo for about 10 and a half years. I’m a true solo. I’ve had staff in and out over the years and I can talk a little more about that. And I also have a couple of contract attorneys who’ve worked for me from time to time, sometimes more than others, but somehow I’ve managed to keep the lights on and keep it all running.
Adriana Linares:
Oh no, you have, and that’s why I have you here. When you decided to go out on your own 10 and a half years ago and start your solo practice, why did you do that?
Paige Greenlee:
So it was a number of things. I had been at big law firms. I had been at a mid-size law firm and I had a couple of friends who had gone solo and I saw that obviously on their own. They got to make all the decisions about how to run the business, and I really like the business aspect of running a law firm because it is a business just like any other business. When you’re at a big law firm, unless you are on the management committee or a certain committee within the firm or you’re dealing with those issues on a daily basis, you can easily forget that.
Like I said, it’s a business just like any other business, I like that. I like to make decisions on how can we save money on this? I want to use this product, not this product. Technology being one of the bigger ones that seem to be a controversy. When I was at big law, this partner wanted to use this, I wanted to use this, and people would kind of ring their hands and say, we’re all going to use this instead. So I wanted to have a little bit more control over things. I also, and this in hindsight maybe was naive, thought it would give me a better work-life balance.
Adriana Linares:
It may have taken you 10 and a half years or eight years to get there, but I feel like you’ve done it. Everyone always says they teach you how to practice law, but they don’t teach you how to run a business in law school. So when you had those dreams of, I’m going to enjoy running the business side, where did you learn to do that or who did you turn to? Where did you get advice from or was it all through the school of hard knocks?
Paige Greenlee:
So a little bit of all of those things. My family ran a business in a small town in Pennsylvania where I grew up. So I grew up with a dad who was an entrepreneur, business owner, family business. And so I learned a lot about operating a business from that. Of course, my dad made me work. I wasn’t just there to freeload as a kid. I helped out at the business and summers and on breaks from school and things like that. So I got to see a little bit about being a business owner from that. And then when I was looking to go out on my own, I talked to other good friends who had got on their own, Liz Koslin, perfect example, Renee Thompson. Both of them had successfully started solo practices and were very happy or seemed very happy anyways doing it. So I reached out to them for advice and feedback and kind of learned what some of the pitfalls were, what some of the hard things to navigate as a solo were and took it from there.
Adriana Linares:
So if you were to get a call today from Young Paige and said, Hey, how did you do it? What are some of those things you learned or wish you had known right when you launched?
Paige Greenlee:
I think one of the biggest things that I didn’t realize when I went out on my own was how much time you spend managing the firm if you don’t delegate things out, which you need to. And I’ve learned that hiring people instead of doing things that you don’t know how to do on your own, IE technology is a waste of your time and money. I’m not a technology person, I’m not an IT person. I know how to do basic things, but because of that, I try to learn how to figure out things on my own or I would make efforts to get my technology all working on my own. Well, guess what? That took me four times as long as it would if I just hired somebody and cost me all of that revenue when I could have been billing clients because I’ve been fortunate enough to have plenty of work to do that I should have been messing with my own technology.
So I think that’s the fact that you spent so much time managing the business of law was surprising to me because again, I’d come from places where we had all kinds of in place to do those things for you. And then some advice I’d give younger Paige was just hire people. You don’t do your own technology, you don’t do your own marketing, you don’t build your own websites, you can, and if you’re sitting around waiting for clients to come in the door, maybe that is a good use of your time, but for me it never was. And I tried to do it and do everything and maintain control of everything and that’s a bad idea.
Adriana Linares:
That’s great advice. Who does your bookkeeping?
Paige Greenlee:
So I have an accountant that was something that from early on, I hired an accountant right out of the gate because I didn’t want to have to deal with month end reconciliations. Obviously I do my trust accounting myself because I think that’s important and I am not willing to outsource that for a number of reasons. Number one reason it’s my bar license, but on the line seems a good one. But everything else, all of my other accounting functions are done through an accountant. So I’ve had the same accountant for 10 and a half years.
Adriana Linares:
Perfect. And you’ve had a little bit like Liz Assistants here, assistants there. They come, they go, when do you decide to hire and fire an assistant? Because I feel like maybe you’ve had experience with that.
Paige Greenlee:
I have had some experience with that. Unfortunately. Again, that’s something I should have hired somebody earlier than I did. I waited until I was spending a third of my day managing my firm, the business part of my firm, a third of my day, maybe more than that, doing administrative tasks that were not billable to clients and then whatever was left billing clients. So that’s not a good business model. Obviously when you bill by now or all my cases are hourly cases, so that’s not a good business model. So I should have hired sooner than I did. I think now I can always use somebody. The trick is finding the right person and getting them in and getting them trained, and that’s very difficult. And I know that I’m not the only person who struggles with that. People who want to work in the legal industry don’t always have a good grasp of what that all entails.
They think it sounds like fun. They’ve seen it on tv. Some of the same reasons, I guess lawyers go to law school, they think it’s what you see on tv and working in a law office is not all that sexy and it’s not all that glamorous. So I’ve had several people just not be willing to do what they need to do in the office. In terms of the second part of your question, when do you fire them? As soon as you realize it’s not working out. And I learned that lesson the hard way a few times too. Of course, I’m always willing to give people a chance to learn, but once they show that they can’t swim in this ocean, they have to get out.
Adriana Linares:
So what I think happens sometimes is that either as a New Solo or as a young attorney, you think you’re going to find a legal assistant that is experienced and going to help you. That happens a lot in big law firms. And actually that used to happen because the pool, speaking of oceans or the ocean of skilled, experienced legal assistance is getting smaller. Every time I have this conversation with attorney, I say, do you have a son or a daughter? Yes. Do you hope they grow up to be a legal assistant? The answer is always no. And not that there’s anything wrong with that honorable job. There’s not. It’s just society is changing, professions are changing. So to find that person, they’re probably going to be more administrative in nature than they are going to be legal in nature, which means you probably really need somebody who’s really good with a computer and can figure out how to problem solve. So when you’re hiring someone, Paige, when you’re looking for that person now, what are you looking for as far as experience?
Paige Greenlee:
Well, you’re exactly right. I mean, I like to have someone who has had some experience in a law firm, but it’s not a hard requirement for me. I’ll take somebody who is just generally interested in the law that, like you said, has this computer skills, has a good grasp on basic technology and is receptive to learning my systems and my processes because that becomes an issue too. If you get somebody who spent too much time in a law firm, then you spend half of your time saying, well, my firm used to do it this way. Well, this is the way we should do it. And I’m always willing to entertain those suggestions. But once I’ve evaluated and said, no, I don’t want to have that conversation again, and you get in when somebody has spent their career working in a law firm, they want to see the same systems, programs, processes that maybe they were at a big law firm.
That’s why I don’t do that. It does not make sense here. I don’t need to have all of this red tape or bureaucracy or levels or this level of software or whatever it happens to be. So you’re right, I just look for somebody who has basic office skills, can talk to a client in a coherent way who is organized. Organized is really the key thing because that’s what I need. I need someone to keep me organized, keep my calendar organized, and again, be able to communicate with clients in a professional manner and in a way that advances things for me.
Adriana Linares:
Amazing. Do you ever think about joining a big law firm or another law firm or partnering with someone? Again,
Paige Greenlee:
I have mean every day the grass is greener on the other side. Everyone says that when you’re a big law, you want to be on your own when you’re sitting here some days without anyone to bounce ideas off of, I think, what am I doing? It’d be so nice to walk down the hall and have the benefit of a partner or colleagues advice like I used to. So yes, of course I’ve thought about it over the past 10 and a half years and I’ve talked to firms, I’ve explored opportunities. I’ve talked to other smaller solo attorneys and thought about that, and at the end of the day, I’ve always come back to the grass is always going to be greener on the other side, and I like being the sole decision maker. At the end of the day, the buck stops here, obviously when you’re the sole decision maker. So that’s the downside to that. But I think that for me, my personality, where I am in my practice, I’m happier being able to call the shots and make the decisions on how my firm runs.
Adriana Linares:
That’s awesome. We’re going to take a quick break, listen to some messages from some sponsors. I’m going to come back and ask Paige about her technology stack. Okay. We’re back with Paige Greenlee. She’s a solo practitioner who practices complex commercial litigation in Tampa, Florida. Paige, tell me a little bit, tell all of us about the technology that you’ve struggled through or not, or you just made the best perfect decision as soon as you went out on your own and how things are going with you and your technology.
Paige Greenlee:
Well, I wish I could say I made all the perfect decisions when I went on my own, but I certainly did not. A lot of this has been trial and error, and you’re familiar with some of this, intimately familiar with some of this. So I’m a Mac office and I decided when I went on my own, I had always had a personal MacBook, which every law firm I was at, it was the bane of their IT departments existence that I wanted to remote in on a MacBook. And some of that has changed over the past 10 and a half years, and there’s still some places where MacBooks could integrate better with legal technology software, but I am a Mac office obviously. Then everything syncs across all my Mac devices, so I find that to be beneficial. An issue that I have run into with that.
Recently I had a legal assistant and I wanted to put her on a MacBook. Well, first of all, a lot of law firm professionals aren’t used to working on a MacBook, so there was a learning curve there. The other thing that issue that we had was that her MacBook syn so perfectly with my MacBook that she had my bank account. So my credit card information, because I learned from my IT person and I have a great IT person right now that what we would have to do to prevent that from happening was set up her own Apple ID password and login that she would have control of that I don’t have control of. And of course that causes a lot of other concerns when you’re running a law practice. So that was a failed experiment bringing someone on a MacBook. But I still only use MacBooks for my technology. I use Clio and have from the very beginning for my billing timekeeping purposes and a big fan. They have a lot of integrations as you know, and some of those have come and gone. Also, we had, I remember there was some voice too.
Adriana Linares:
I loved that. Renee never stops talking about the thing. The one with Alexa?
Paige Greenlee:
Yes, and I can’t think it was like an Otter or something. I can’t remember what it was called, but that was fantastic when it lasted, and I don’t really know why that didn’t become a thing. We talked with devices all day long and dictate all day long. That was amazing. But I use Clio. I’m using Net Docs for my doc management software and I use Office 365 across all my devices.
Adriana Linares:
And you love your scan snaps.
Paige Greenlee:
I love my scan snaps. I have one on every desk. I think you introduced me to the ScanSnap when I was starting on my own time ago. The ScanSnap that’s on my desk right now is 10 and a half years old. It’s amazing. And I said once I started using it here, I got one at my house also because who doesn’t have a bunch of old tax returns and things that you have paper that you just need to get rid of and off your desk or out of your filing cabinets? I scan everything and then shred it. I
Adriana Linares:
Love it.
Paige Greenlee:
And I have it on my staff desk. Everyone has a scan snap, so I have one at my house and one on every desk. And honestly, I don’t understand why every law firm doesn’t have one on their attorney’s desk, paralegal’s desk, staff’s desk so that people aren’t running to the giant copier to scan things. Lawyers can just get rid of things all day long, put it in the trash and move on if you’re paperless or try to be paperless.
Adriana Linares:
And that’s a good segue to ask you about your very busy complex commercial litigation practice, which must be paper intensive and paper heavy. So how do you manage and organize all the papers or have we really gotten to a point now where there’s not as much paper as there used to be, but there’s still some?
Paige Greenlee:
Well, there is a lot less paper than there used to be. I don’t print and maintain hard copies of pleading binders less or until I’m going to trial because you still don’t know what the wifi is going to be like in the courthouse. I still want to have that crutch. So I still have a problem with that. Same with discovery documents. I mean, when I started practicing almost 25 years ago, now you produce documents in paper form largely, I mean boxes and boxes and boxes of documents. And now almost uniformly it’s a share file. You get say, is share file sent to you by opposing counsel? I send my documents by a share file. You have them electronically. I print things here and there when something I need to look at or go through or mark up. I again print them in advance of trial depending upon how the judge is handling exhibits at trial, they to have hard copies. But the days of having giant war rooms full of documents just because you had a hard copy of every document, at least one copy of every document that was filed in a case or produced in a case. Those days, at least for my firm, I think most firms are over.
Adriana Linares:
So would young Paige like to hear from experienced Paige that you shouldn’t be cheap about your technology either and just really get what you need? I feel like that is one thing I’ve always liked about you is that you have not been afraid to spend money or change technology or just throw something out if it didn’t work.
Paige Greenlee:
Yeah, no, absolutely. I think I’ve seen a lot of other people decide to try, oh, the cheapest. And even some of these forums that I’m in on Facebook with other lawyers, women lawyers, male lawyers as well, I’m not limiting it to women lawyers. There’s just a lot more women lawyer forums out there or that I’m involved in anyway. They’re looking, what’s the cheapest this? What’s the cheapest that and the cheapest, not always. What’s the best, what’s the bang for your buck is the right question. I don’t need a Ferrari for my firm, but I also don’t want, I’m going to date myself a Yugo, a
Adriana Linares:
Rocco, which was my first car.
Paige Greenlee:
You want the best bang for the buck. If I’m not going to use all the bells and whistles, then I don’t need all the bells and whistles on something. I don’t need the highest subscription plan. You need to really look at those things and make good decisions because the basic model might be cheaper and save you money, but if it doesn’t save you time and cost you time, then it’s the same thing really in the practice of law on an hourly basis. If you can spend a couple more dollars, a couple extra dollars a month and save some time or be more efficient because of it, it’s well worth it.
Adriana Linares:
Also, well worth it is your beautiful website that you have. So can you talk to us just about marketing, how you get clients and that website that clearly you outsource as you said earlier, and again, more advice for Young Page?
Paige Greenlee:
Yes, absolutely. At the beginning I tried to do that on my own. Everyone said, oh, it’s so easy to build a website on Wix. Okay. I mean, I guess it is easy, but is it worth my time? No, it’s not worth my time. Again, I have work here that I need to get to for clients that they’re paying me to do. So yes, I do outsource my website. I have for some time now. I’m glad you’re asking me this question today and not last week because my new website just did launch this week. I just had,
Adriana Linares:
It looks beautiful. I had
Paige Greenlee:
It just all cleaned up, dusted off, and updated so that it’s current. And that’s also something that’s really easy to get lazy about as a solo, especially if you’re trying to do it yourself is my website was as of last week before this new one launched. It hadn’t been updated in six or seven years, which is embarrassing. I’ve done a lot of things between now and then and my practice area hasn’t changed, but there’s just things on there that are of interest to people, awards I’ve won different things that I’ve done that needed to be updated and it just looks stale and clients look at things like that now. But my marketing is largely people finding me via Google search, which sometimes isn’t for me doing commercial litigation, that’s not probably my target market or target ideal way of a client locating me because businesses don’t typically do Google searches for lawyers.
So the majority of my work comes from past clients who said, oh, I had a great experience with her. She’s great working with businesses, give her a call. And then also, I have really maintained really good relationships with the law firms that I worked at before I went on my own. And so when something doesn’t make sense for them because of a conflict, because of their hourly price point, because of a retainer requirement that a larger firm has, and I can be a little bit more flexible with things like that, then they refer that work to me. And I really appreciate that. So thank you to all my friends out there who’ve referred me cases over the years.
Adriana Linares:
That’s perfect. And that’s what we hear on this podcast over and over again, that your referral network, the bridges you haven’t burned, the good clients that you’ve done work for are often the best way. Now it takes time to build that, and that’s okay, but you’ve gotten there. I will say that your website [email protected] and it’s green, LEE law tampa.com. If you want to go see a very well done website
Paige Greenlee:
And a shout out to my marketing people, Gliss marketing also here in St. Petersburg.
Adriana Linares:
Oh, I’m so glad you said that because people are always asking, how do you spell it?
Paige Greenlee:
GLIs, G-L-I-S-S.
Adriana Linares:
Awesome. Let’s take a quick break, listen to some more messages from some sponsors, but make sure you stay because I’m going to ask Paige about what it’s like practicing complex litigation in today’s world. We’ll be right back. All right. I’m back, Paige. There’s always a stereotype about, well, first of all, women in law that there aren’t enough or maybe they aren’t treated the way we would like to be treated. And especially when it comes to the segment of litigation and going to trial and maybe coming up against the good old boy network out there. How do you feel about that when that comes up?
Paige Greenlee:
Well, it comes up more frequently than I hoped it would. The young Paige hoped it would. Young naive Paige thought that things were going to change and move forward. And they have to some extent. I don’t want to pretend like things haven’t improved a little bit, but sadly for 2025, there’s a lot less women practicing law. I mean, more women now are going to law school than men graduating from law school than men. And they start off in the practice that way. And then a lot of women leave private practice. This isn’t a surprise or a secret to anybody who is paying attention to any of these statistics, but certainly in commercial litigation world, a lot of times I find myself as the only woman in the Courtroom other than maybe the court reporter. I’ve been mistaken for the court reporter as I know every woman who practices Law
Litigation has been. So, it’s a real issue for our profession, and it’s one that women deal with on a daily basis. Women face challenges certainly in the practice of law that men don’t face. But we’re here and we’re doing great things. I mean, I’ve seen some really amazing female lawyers, litigators, trial attorneys over the years. It’s very impressive. It takes a certain personality to persevere and push on through. And I hope more women continue to do it. I know it’s not an option for some because of family constraints or things of that nature that they don’t, can’t just suck it up and do it. But it’s, it’s challenging and it’s unfortunate, but we’re here. We’re not going back. And I do see a lot more women in courtrooms now than I did 25 years ago on the usual. But most of the time when I’m involved in a complex commercial case, I am one of, if not the only woman in the Courtroom.
Adriana Linares:
I know that you have a very strong support network mostly, well, I wouldn’t say mostly because I don’t know, but I’m going to assume based on all the involvement you’ve always had in the legal community from, I was reminded by looking at your website, which is why I was on there, that you were president of the Hillsborough County Bar. You’re president of the Young Lawyers Association for the Florida Bar. You’re an active member of the Board of Governors for the Florida Bar, and I think you’re running for bar president of the Florida Bar. So I know that you of a strong network of women behind you, but I feel knowing you that you also have a really strong network of men who support and push and help you too. So talk to us a little bit about forming those relationships and why getting involved in not necessarily just the legal community and volunteer efforts, because all that stuff is volunteer work. I know it because I do it for the A VA and the Law practice division, and I don’t get paid for it, and I don’t make money off of it, and I certainly don’t get clients from it, not at least in my world. So encourage young Paige to get involved and why that matters and has helped you all this time.
Paige Greenlee:
So young Paige had a rude awakening when she moved to Tampa, accepted a job and moved to Tampa. I’m not from Florida, I didn’t go to law school in Florida. I moved to Tampa and I realized I didn’t know a single person. And here I am in an industry where you depend heavily on building referrals for building a book of business relationships for getting clients in the door. And I had a little bit of a panic attack and I thought, what am I going to do? And so I started volunteering, getting involved in Bar Service locally perfect. And then statewide, I had the opportunity to be on the statewide Young Lawyers division for the Florida Bar serving, representing the 13th Circuit here in Tampa. And as you said, I moved up and became president of that organization. And I cannot overemphasize how personally and professionally beneficial those experiences have been to me.
I’ve been involved in the sections of theBar business law section, solo and small firm section of theBar. I also have done stuff with the A, BA. Those relationships are just so amazingly invaluable. Again, personally and professionally, I’ve received referrals from people all over the country with the A, b, A. You mentioned I’ve, people are like, oh, she’s, Paige is our person in Florida. Even if she doesn’t do this kind of work, she can get us in touch with that person. So I mean, people that I met 20 years ago in the A BA still have me in their contacts and reach out whenever they have a matter in Florida or their partner has a matter in Florida, big firms that circulate those emails. Does anyone know a good commercial litigator in Florida is get flipped to me and I’m like, I’m a good commercial litigator in Florida.
I’ll be happy to talk to you about this case. So Bar Service has just been really beneficial to me for so many reasons. Again, professionally, I just explained some of the benefits I’ve experienced from that, but personally, most of my friends are people I’ve met while I was on the Young Lawyers Board and later too. But when you’re a young lawyer, I think you kind of get with those people and those people have my friends for 20 some years now and have people I go out to dinner with on the regular when I’m in Tampa or in other cities and Can I use your office? I’m going to be in Jacksonville next week. I need a place to park for a while and work between hearings or depositions or whatever. Those relationships have been really phenomenal. So strongly encourage people to get involved in Bar Service. I understand why it’s really easy not to, because the time constraints of our profession, especially if you’re considering a solo practice. But it really has been just amazing for me.
Adriana Linares:
For me, what’s impressive about these organizations or these groups, these groups of people, is how they truly are looking to help other lawyers in the community or in their state or in their practice area, be better at practicing law and running their businesses. And I always appreciate that very much because I feel, especially as a person who’s not a lawyer, but’s involved, there’s so many great conversations that we have all the time about, why don’t we do that? This other state did this or this group did this. Hey, we should look at that. And it takes people who are open-minded to make changes like that. So I have certainly always appreciated those relationships as well. So having climbed this mountain through all the different levels, unlock this badge, unlock that badge page you’re running for bar President, what made you decide to do that?
Paige Greenlee:
So 20 some years of service to theBar and feeling like I can make a difference, feeling like hopefully I have already made a difference. But as I said, I was initially a government lawyer when I came out of school.
Adriana Linares:
Yeah, wait, wait, hold on. Let me interrupt you because you’re right. You want to feel like you’ve made a difference. And I can tell you I’ve watched you make a difference, so you should pat yourself on the back for that. Actually, everyone that you work with, that we work with, that we know it’s hard sometimes to forge change in this profession. And so I think you should look back and go, yeah, I’ve made a difference. I’ve seen it. So yeah, you’re welcome. And I mean it. Okay, so more change or more support because you don’t want to necessarily come in with the machete slaying away traditions and rules and regulations. But small changes,
Paige Greenlee:
Like you said, this is an old profession and it’s one that isn’t always very receptive to change. And some of that is good. And then there’s sometimes you need to say, okay, things have changed and we need to change to adapt to that. But I’ve done all of this bar service over the years, president of the Wild D, I’m in my seventh year of service on the Board of Governors for the Florida Bar, again representing the 13th Circuit here in Tampa. And it’s something I’ve thought about for a long time and has been a goal of mine for a long time. So now’s the time for me to do it. Like I said, I think when I talk to lawyers, I’ve been traveling the state with my campaign and I’ve talked to lawyers. I think I can identify with things that most of our lawyers are going through. I started as a young lawyer, didn’t know anybody here. My first job out of law school was as a government lawyer. I clerked for a judge for two years. So
I know the challenges the government lawyers face in terms of generally lower compensation, not as much flexibility in your schedule. I know some of the issues they face, and certainly I’m looking to hear about other issues that they think that theBar could work on to serve them better. And I worked at big law firms, two big law firms. I was an equity shareholder at big law firms, so I know what big firms deal with the struggles that lawyers there deal with, the pluses and minuses of being at Big Law. I then worked at a medium sized firm, a 10 12 attorney firm, and now I’ve been on my own. So I feel like that brings a very unique perspective to the job and to looking at Bar Service and figuring out what theBar can do better to help lawyers. So many lawyers don’t want anything to do with their bar associations, not the Florida bar, just whatever bar that they’re affiliated with. They don’t understand the value in it. I have personally seen so much value from being involved in Bar Service, and I wish more people could see that. I hope to be able to convince more people to join the cult. That is our service. Come on the bandwagon. It’s fun here. We have a good time. We support each other and we do good things. I love that.
Adriana Linares:
Well, thanks Paige for taking time out of your very, very busy schedule today. Tell everybody where they can find friend, follow and support you.
Paige Greenlee:
My campaign page is a vote for page.com because apparently I was around when the internet was born, so I’ve had several people say, how did you get Vote for Page? Unfortunately or fortunately not my first foray into a contested election. So that’s my website. And then I’m on Facebook and Instagram also as page for president-Elect, the Florida Bar.
Adriana Linares:
Love it. And it’s page with an I in the middle, P-A-I-G-E, I should say it out loud. And Greenlee is G-R-E-E-N-L-E-E. Thank you Paige, so much for taking the time to talk to us today. I think you have inspired many, a listener to go out there and be a successful solo.
Paige Greenlee:
Thank you for having me. I really enjoyed it.
Adriana Linares:
All right, everyone, thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed today’s podcast and we’ll see you next month
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