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What In The World Is Going On With Lawyer Retirement Planning?

By Bruce Jackson
November 02, 2005

Retirement is a distant and unnoticed object of concern for young lawyers. After the toil of law school, the terror of the bar exam and the career-defining decisions of job searching, a young lawyer cannot be blamed for feeling immortal. With a seemingly endless stream of years ahead to ply his or her skills in the world of the law, slay a few dragons and make his or her fortune, retirement planning is not on the “to do” list.

For those of us with years of practice behind us, it is shocking how quickly the stream of time has passed. We of middle years think more of home and family, less of dragons, and wonder about the adequacy of our retirement planning.

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