After four years of law school and three six-hour days of taking the bar exam, I was sworn in to practice law in Ohio on November 1, 1983.
My first office was located in downtown Ravenna, Ohio, across the street from the courthouse in Portage County. It had one room with a desk and a typewriter. 
It wasn’t much, but it was my beginning.
I had a second office in my hometown, Mantua, Ohio. The one in Mantua was even smaller, but it was a good start. My grandmother owned a bar, Country Inn, and sent everyone from the bar to me to get a Will. Knowing her, I assume she paid for most of those Wills.
The photo quality could be better, but my dad made the two signs from campaign signs. He did the lettering when I ran for public office a few years earlier. I beat a guy named Perry Mason (imagine that) 2-1 but lost to the incumbent.
There were no cell phones in those days, so I used call forwarding, driving from office to office. I 
did well, but after several months, a new opportunity presented itself, and I moved to Lancaster, Ohio. It was a good run. I stayed in Lancaster for 38 years as a trial attorney, spending more time in court than most attorneys.
While Lancaster was, to me, a larger version of Mantua, it was time to go home. I no longer have 11 employees, including another attorney, working for me. I’ve come full circle doing what I love, engaging in the practice of law and helping folks from one room with one desk, a computer, and a keyboard.