“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Henry David Thoreau In the fall of 1970, I showed up in Athens for my first semester of law school, two weeks late (the National Guard would not let met out any earlier), sleeping on a friend’s sofa. Somehow, I survived the year. The next summer, my college sweetheart and I married; and I found a job with a local law firm. As it turns out, I stayed with the firm for 25 yea

Ever thought that, all of a sudden, you could lose everything you own? Drive to Atlanta and count the lawyers’ billboards or watch the Atlanta news; every other commercial is a lawyer’s. Those lawyers are plaintiffs’ lawyers, looking for you, to take everything you have. Let’s say: You have a car wreck, are at fault, and somebody gets hurt; You have rental property; somebody gets hurt on the premises; You have a party at your house and somebody gets hurt there. That SOMEBODY