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years ago I learned that key elements of
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my personality are planning and building
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when I first started practicing in 2003
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the planning was working with clients
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developing a strategy for their case or
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you know the little details that go into
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preparing for a mediation or negotiation
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and then the building was putting
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together these divorce decrees or
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custody orders that ideally not only
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complicate
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that’s the planning and building I used
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to love and I still love but now as the
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proprietor of a law firm I’ve taken it
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to a bigger level where my planning and
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building is how can we do this in a
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fashion where with excellent staff that
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we brought on and trained with systems
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in place are comprehensive that it’s not
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just how many cases in a given year can
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I help but how many more because now
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we’ve got awesome staff and great
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attorneys that were able to help even
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more people so the most rewarding part
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of my practice now is having this great
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law firm that is really able to help
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more people than I ever could have back
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when I was a solo
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I’ve been doing this long enough that I
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know what clients kind of need to know
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when we’re going through their case on
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what they need to learn about in order
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to make really good decisions when it
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comes time for any settlement or trial
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and recently we put this together in a
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Minnesota book and we’ve got a Wisconsin
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book that we’re in development on that
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is capturing the law in plain language
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that people can easily understand
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covering all the issues of divorce
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custody child support domestic violence
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even things like grandparent custody
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that spell out all sorts of best
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practices and really how to make sure
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that you accomplish your goals and we
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give these to potential clients then
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they come in for a consult
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thus current clients get it we send them
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to former clients even people that are
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interested in this can go onto our
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website they can download an e-version
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of it or just let us know we’ll drop one
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of these old-fashioned paper ones in the
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mail to them
Minneapolis, MN family law attorney Matthew Ludt talks about the most rewarding aspect of his practice as well as his free book on family law.