Seymour Wasserstrum Law Offices - August 2020

Seymour Wasserstrum Law Offices - August 2020

The Law Offices of Seymour Wasserstrum

205 West Landis Ave., Vineland, NJ 08360 • 1040 Kings Highway North, Ste. 304, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 August 2020 856-696-8300

Getting Fired Isn’t the End! For Me, It Was a New Beginning

took me to the supermarket. I quickly decided that when I became an adult, I would become “Seymour Unleashed.”That’s why at age 26, I decided I wanted to catch up on all I had missed out on during those first 25 years. I thought practicing law would be easy, and I’d have plenty of free time. Boy, was I wrong. I was much more interested in traveling the world, meeting lots of people, throwing singles disco parties, and making lots of money by becoming a great blackjack player. It didn’t take long for me to realize that it was pretty stupid of me to let what card came next from a blackjack dealer’s shoe control my happiness. And after having met all these different types of people during my travels, I started to believe that honest people didn’t really exist in the world. What was the point of it all? Then, I met some people who told me that their lives had been radically changed when they found God. They tried to convince me to join them, but I said no thanks. I kept drifting without direction. Then, finally, after having tried so many other things, I figured, why not? I might as well try God! What really scared me was that I didn’t want to go to hell. Then someone gave me this book called “Evidence That Demands a Verdict” by Josh McDowell, which makes a pretty strong legal argument for faith over skepticism, for believing the Bible instead of believing in nothing. I read that book on and off for a year before it finally started to make sense to me. When I accepted its principles, I suddenly felt like I had a mission in life. I became more compassionate and understanding about what other people were going through, and I also realized that being a lawyer didn’t mean I couldn’t have fun. I started to wonder, “Could I have a law office that totally served our clients’ needs, brought

This year has been pretty tough for just about everyone. Millions of people have not only lost their jobs, but they’ve also lost their hope, their confidence, their joy, and their purpose. I sort of know what it’s like because I got fired from my first job as an attorney, and boy was I shocked and devastated. I studied and worked so hard for so many years, and now this? Well, guess what? Getting fired turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me. As a new lawyer working for a three-man law firm, I lacked confidence in myself, and practicing law brought me more pain than joy. It must have been quite obvious to the two senior partners, Frank and Irv, because one afternoon they called me in to the back conference room. They were seated at opposite ends of this long table, and I was in the middle. Irv was the senior partner, a really nice man, and he was the one who had hired me. He looked at me for a couple of seconds, and then he looked at Frank. He said, “You tell him, Frank. I can’t do it.” They told me that they thought I was very bright and intelligent, but they didn’t think that practicing law was my cup of tea. Looking back at it 46 years later, I have to admit that I deserved to be fired. At age 26, I’d spent most of my life studying really hard in high school, college, and law school, and working in my parents’mom- and-pop grocery store. I had plenty of book knowledge but no street smarts. I had no idea what the real world was actually like. That’s probably because I was the only child of two very loving and very overprotective parents. They had survived Hitler’s Holocaust and the deaths of virtually their entire families in Poland. I was somewhat hyperactive as a young child, and when I was 3 years old, in an effort to control me, my mother put a leash around me when she

some joy into our clients’ lives, and allowed us to have fun while we helped people?”

I really believe that throughout the years God has been totally with me. I believe that God has given me guidance, strength, confidence, and joy, and if you’re ever going to have faith, well, now sure seems like a pretty good time to start. Throughout the years, I’ve won lots of cases that I thought I was going to lose. I’ve often been surprised and impressed by my abilities to defend people in the courtroom, and I soon realized that those skills and abilities were coming from God. I’ve been a lawyer for 47 years, and I believe that my passion, enthusiasm, and energy have increased as the years have gone by. And all of this never would have happened if I hadn’t been fired. When I was younger, I couldn’t wait to retire and have lots of fun. Now, when someone asks me when I’m going to retire, I tell them, “Retire? What does that word mean? It sounds pretty boring to me.”No one knows how many days or years we have left, but I hope and pray I can continue to grow my practice and represent my clients to the best of my abilities far into the future. I love what I do, and with God’s help, I’m having lots of fun and experiencing lots of joy while I’m doing it! Have you been fired? Do you want to be blessed?Well, who knows? Maybe your blessings just got started on the day you got fired.

-Seymour Wasserstrum

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