EP291: Paige Hulse - How To Legally Protect Your Bookkeeping Business

Ad Read: I immediately started networking and building up mentoring relationships and just learning from others who had gone before me and absorbing as much information as humanly possible before diving in. And then in May of that year, I opened the proverbial doors to my law firm. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your I'm your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, I'm Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a very good one. Our guest is the owner of her own law firm based in Oklahoma where she helps entrepreneurs with their legal needs. Paige Hulse, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to talk to you today. It's great to have you, and I'm excited to hear about everything legal-wise for the bookkeeping industry, but as well about your perspective on business being an entrepreneur and business owner yourself. So, before we get into all of that, Paige, please tell us a little bit about your career journey leading up to this point.

Yeah. Well, thank you so much. So, yeah, like you said, my name is Paige Holce and I own a— I got very creative with naming my law firm, Paige Holce Law, based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Backing up before I started my law firm, I graduated from law school and jumped straight into the world of litigation. Like you mentioned, I'm from Oklahoma, and as many people are probably aware, the oil and gas industry is huge down here. So I, upon graduating from law school, I was— I graduated in the middle of one of the largest recessions in the oil and gas industry, which was 2015, and got one of the only available jobs as a litigator in the oil and gas industry. Um, the reason why that's relevant to what I do today is that, is that industry primarily deals with contracts, contract disputes, issues of that nature. And that first job that I had was one of those, looking back, I'm so grateful. I could not have had a better job to, um, prepare me to be a law firm owner, but it was absolutely a trial by fire experience. I was in court almost immediately upon getting my job and was leading up federal cases within the first year. So it was a grueling year and