Brent interviews Wesley Henderson, an attorney in the Charleston, South Carolina area. He has taken a different road to creating a successful law firm and they talk about why and how he did it.

Quite often people become attorneys because of mentors or family influence but for Wesley and his brother there were no lawyers in their family. He discovered he had an affinity toward law classes in college.  He decided to pursue it because of the many practice areas that are available to those that achieve a law degree.

Out of college, Wesley joined a big law firm but two weeks into it decided that it wasn’t for him. It took him a year and a half to make the break but he learned a lot from the process.

Wesley and Brent discuss the different career paths for attorneys and what it means to be a partner in law firms.  Wesley explained that this was not interesting for him.

Wesley and his brother formed a small law firm, Henderson and Henderson in Charleston SC, where they have the ability to control who the firm deals with and this is of great value.

Their main practice areas are business and employment law. They also work in ancillary areas for their clients such as litigation, estate and probate, and family law. Relationships are very important, both with colleagues and with clients.  This also allows them to have a balance in their lives. This is good because both of them have growing families and it is important to them to be an active part in their family life.

They also have an online legal service to serve the needs of business owners, Drafted Legal. It is similar to and competes with LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer and is quite successful.  They give more direct and personal help to their individual online clients than the other online companies offer.

He can also be reached on Instagram.