One day great success. The next day abject failure.

I had opened my law firm… of one!

But... no business.

So what does a 'lawyer-success-to-be' do when there’s no business?

Teach at the Bar School!

The first day nothing much. A few students straggled in.

I didn’t know what to do.

So I improvised.

I taught the class how to answer questions on the exam.

That day, word got around like the speed of light.

"Brilliant teacher!

You’ve got to take her class!"

The next day I taught the same approach. 'How to answer bar questions on the exam.'

Same success! The students were hanging from the rafters!

The next day, I was getting bored. I craved the challenge of the new.

So instead of repeating a proven success, I introduced the 'Socratic Method.'

“What did the examiner really mean when he asked that question?”

The following day, there was no one in the class.

"Socrates, Shmo'crates. All that interests us is to pass these f***ing bar exams!"

I was racked with the pain of abject failure.

I handed in my resignation.

It was a "Socratian"ending.

Socrates was forced to drink hemlock, the poison that "did Socrates in"

Facing an empty classroom is it's own "hemlock"....at least for the moment.....

but, unlike Socrates, only one moment!