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Meet Michael K. Hourigan
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my philosophy in the practice of law is
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every day i come to work my goal is to
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create
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build and maintain relationships with
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clients
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i’ve been practicing law for more than
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20 years
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during that time has come become very
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clear to me
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that clients are best served when they
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establish
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long-term relationships of trust with
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their attorneys
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what we try to do is listen to our
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clients we find out what their
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objectives are and their goals are and
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we try to make their goals our goals
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and internalize them related to that
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um as we represent clients we try to
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establish good relationships with
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everybody we run across
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want to run across people in in the
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court staff
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judges opposing counsel of course
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everyone we run across
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in the legal community in the business
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community in the government community
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and we have established a very good
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relationship
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in the community every day we work to
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further that relationship
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and that assists us in working with
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clients and it benefits
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clients that we have such a good
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relationship in the legal community
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what you can expect from me as a client
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is that i’m going to communicate with
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you
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very well really the thing i enjoy the
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most about practicing law
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is working with clients getting to know
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them working with
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their employees their management their
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owners and it’s critically important to
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communicate with them
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promptly and clearly and respectfully
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what we try to be very mindful of when
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we’re working with clients
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is that they are engaging us at a time
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that they are outside of their
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comfort zone whether it’s a personal
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matter or a business matter
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we need to give them the confidence
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that we have their best interests at
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heart
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that we’re working diligently to
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represent them
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with a great deal of knowledge that
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we’re bringing to bear to the subject
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listening is critically important
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practicing
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law for as long as many of us have it’s
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very easy sometimes to
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start to assume what the client’s
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objectives are
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and not listen to them and not have a
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great understanding of what their goals
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are
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frequently the client’s goals are not
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exactly what we
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think the goal should be but ultimately
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it’s the client that makes
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the final decision we need to make sure
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we understand what their goals are work
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with them
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come come through with them to the best
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solutions to meet those goals and work
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with them throughout that process
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we want to be very creative we want to
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be on the cutting edge of developments
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developments in the law there are always
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new developments
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the further away from law school you get
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the more incumbent it is on lawyers to
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make sure they’re educating themselves
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with continuing legal
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education or otherwise to make sure
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we’re knowledgeable with all things that
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we need to do
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to represent them and bring to bear that
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knowledge and the representation of the
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client
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Baltimore, MD business lawyer Michael K. Hourigan talks about his approach to the practice as well as his commitment to professionalism.
