Find Your Landing Zone

Kevin McGoff is an author, travel writer, speaker, and lawyer. During his career Kevin worked for a state agency, ran a solo practice, and started a law firm. Later he served as General Counsel to a large midwest firm. As he looked to other horizons Kevin crafted a plan with his law firm's management allowing him to wind down his career while developing new skills. He retired from the practice of law in 2021. Kevin is an award-winning travel writer, avid cyclist, and inveterate traveler. He developed a successful program to complement his book, Find Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond The Bar, which will be published by the ABA in August, 2023. The seminar is designed to motivate lawyers and other professionals to progress from thinking about what’s next in life to creating a personal plan to make it happen.  During most of his over forty years of practice Kevin represented lawyers and judges in professional licensure matters, assisted lawyers and law firms on issues pertaining to firm management, law firm dissolution and organization, malpractice, legal ethics, and related litigation. In the early days of his career Kevin practiced in the fields of criminal defense and family law. A frequent speaker about legal ethics for over 25 years, Kevin, and Deputy Executive Secretary of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission Chuck Kidd collaborated with the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum to develop the seminar “Vignettes of Legal Ethics”. The program instantly resonated to attorney audiences and became one of the most popular and sought-after CLE seminars. Their efforts were seen by an estimated 10,000 Indiana attorneys.  Kevin has presented on the topic of legal ethics at programs in other jurisdictions and to international attorney audiences with the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Married to his wife Patty for 49 years, they have three children, five grandchildren, and no pets. Patty and Kevin live in the South of France and Indiana. Visit Kevin online at https://surlaroutekm.com/about/.

Table of Contents:




Introduction




Section I: Connect the Dots




1. See Your Future - Don't Wander Into It




2. To Know Where You're Going, Know Where You've Been




3. Reading Cues & Taking Risks




Section II: Chart Your Journey




4. Finding My Landing Zone




5. Arriving at My Landing Zone




6. Finding Your Landing Zone




Section III: Put the Pencil to It




7. Selling My Talents to the Firm




8. Selling Your Talents to the firm




9. Funding Your Next Stage




10. Calculating Your Realistic Financial Needs




11. You Gotta Have a Plan




Section IV: From Plan to Reality




12. Circling Back - Some Goals Need to Germinate




13. Why France, You Ask?




14. Waiting it Out to Make it Happen




Summary




Appendices




Author Page




Notes