Maine has more legal work than it has lawyers to do it, and that gap grows every year even as rural opportunity grows with it. Rachel Okun, President of the Maine State Bar Association and a solo personal injury attorney at Okun Law, breaks down why she sees rural practice as a real career path, not a compromise, and why she taught herself AI tools so she could speak to her membership with real experience instead of theory. She also connects a less obvious dot: attorney burnout, she says, is one of the leading drivers behind bar complaints, since overextended lawyers start missing client communications long before anything more serious goes wrong. Okun closes on her defining message as bar president, that the profession loses something real every time a Zoom call replaces a handshake, and that relationships built through bar leadership, not marketing budgets, are what actually built her practice.
Proving once again that ALPS Insurance puts the "treat" in retreat, they gathered leaders in law from across the country this summer. These sit-down conversations reveal flavors of leadership and legal trends from a variety of perspectives. Cool takes, one scoop at a time, recorded live at the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat in Missoula, MT.
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