EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to Uniquely Small Biz, a podcast where small business owners share their real stories of success, failure and everything in between.
Carolyn: Joining us today on the podcast is Francine Love, who is not only the managing attorney of Love Law Firm, but you are the founder of the firm as well. Welcome.
Francine: Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I appreciate you having me.
Carolyn: Oh, my gosh, it is our pleasure. I want to start, Francine, with your history and your history is interesting in the sense that a lot of people go to law school when they're younger and they immediately get into law right out of school. But your journey is unique in the sense that you didn't follow that typical path. Can you tell us a little bit about your journey?
Francine: Sure. Well, I started on the typical journey. I graduated from law school and went into a law firm and it was absolutely miserable. And I quickly learned that that was not the route that was going to really work well for me. The motto there was, “If we don't see you on Saturday, you know, don't bother coming in on Sunday”. And I thought, well, that really isn't gonna be a nice way to live for a long period of time. So fortunately, a friend of mine worked at a big Fortune 500 company, and so they were looking for in-house counsel and I was able to move and get into one of the claims attorney position there. So I went from being the low man on the totem pole at the law firm that I was at, to now running litigation and having law firm partners answer to me, which as a one year out of law school, I thought that was pretty awesome.
Carolyn: Yeah it is!
Francine: And I stayed in-house counsel for about 20 years or a little longer before I opened up my own firm.
Carolyn: Did you, from your first day in law school, did you always dream about owning your own law firm?
Francine: I think everyone does. I wanted to become a lawyer since fifth grade. I remember standing on the playground, looking around at all the other kids going, I don't know what they're going to do, but I'm going to be a lawyer.