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Our Firm Story

Adam graduated from law school in 1995 and came to work here in Gainesville as a prosecutor in State Court working on DUIs, family violence and traffic matters. After 18 months at State Court, he worked for a brief period with another private law firm in town as he tried to find my way to estate planning. In the fall of 1997, Adam began working at Stewart, Melvin, & Frost as an associate. He worked closely with Woody Stewart who was the premiere estate planning attorney in Northeast Georgia and over the next five years we worked with over 125 wealthy families implementing a variety of plans to reduce the very high estate tax. Even though Adam was working for a fantastic mentor, whom he loved, he felt a large disconnect between what he dreamed of during law school versus the reality of practicing law at a firm.

One of the problems working as an associate at a large firm is how production is measured by the billable hour. It caused problems for him because it was restricting his ability to serve and relate to clients. To his clients, the hourly rate was always looming and so they kept conversations short or they never asked to have them even when they wanted them.

The inefficient grind of the billable hour and dissatisfaction of not serving his clients as well as they deserved, drove Adam to begin his search in the corporate world for a job where he could leverage his law degree. From 2002 to 2015 he worked in the corporate sector in a variety of positions, but that still wasn’t aligned with what he had envisioned being able to do as an attorney. In 2015, Adam found himself wanting to shift paths again, so he went back to what he knew and had been taught so well, estate planning. But, not knowing any other way, Adam went back to the billable hour model. Which brought back all of the old problems presented before. It’s hard to track every hour of your day and is not a satisfying way to practice law.

This is the classic day of a billable hour attorney:

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