It's Not Over

How firing a dysfunctional client saved this startup - Yvonne Wakefield | E8


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When her biggest client becomes her worst paying client the pressure mounted and my next guest had to dig deep to survive.

Yvonne Wakefield is a lawyer who started Caveat legal, the Airbnb for lawyers, in 2011 as a way to provide affordable legal services to those who couldn't afford the biggest law firms in the world.

Ironically it was an established, old-school law firm that almost sunk her company by holding back payments, spinning long stories and manipulating the truth.

Yvonne has fought bad clients, burnout and an archaic establishment and thrived.

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It's Not OverBy Nic Haralambous