Similar to many of our clients, my professional career has been more of a meander than a beeline. After law school, I worked as a management consultant in Boston, then practiced law for a decade in California. I specialized in civil appeals, an academic, high-stakes area of law that requires addressing questions whose answers aren’t readily apparent. It was helpful training for the work I do with clients today, since paying attention to the fine print and knowing that seemingly “silly questions” are often the most important ones helps us take a more thorough approach. When I started the firm in 2003, my wife and I had just had our first son a few months before. Today we have two teenage b