Taking risks

Periodically, the business channel here at b5 has a challenge, and this one is about taking risks. Since it’s world trade month, I thought mine should have something to do with, not surprisingly, trade.
The risk I took was to start a law firm with the aim of assisting foreign (mostly German) companies set up in the US, more specifically in the Philadelphia area. Before, during, and after law school I was told that you couldn’t be an international lawyer in Philadelphia, that you had to go to New York or Washington. A combination of stubbornness and home-town pride (Go Flyers, …read more