I’ve been known to complain to lawyers against whom I practice that when it comes to business most lawyers are the dumbest businesspeople on the planet. Today I want to point out one lawyer, Maggi Moss, who is not in that category. Maggi is a colleague and friend of mine. She’s a businesswoman with a lifestyle that many lawyers should consider, because attorney Moss is successful in whatever she chooses to do. Currently her occupation isn't the practice of law.

As a trial lawyer, if you live long enough and are smart about what you do with the money you earn, sooner or later you’ll figure out another way to make a living, other than as a trial lawyer. Let’s consider how law is practiced. We show up for work and immediately begin the process of trying to ruin another lawyer’s case. Mentally we have to think, I win-you lose. Our entire professional life is forged with metal that resists the other guy winning; if I can make you lose that’s a good thing. We want the other guy to lose; we actually hope he/she loses. Every document we file is intended to ruin the other lawyer’s chances of winning. So if you think practicing law is somehow going to be fun, get a clue because for the most part it isn’t, unless of course you have the menatality of Spartacus. It takes a tough character and a tougher ego to withstand 30 years of the onslaught by multiple lawyers in a thousand cases all trying to make you look like a loser. Have I really done this for 30+ years? There must be something wrong with me - and you for that matter.

Lately I’ve been telling lawyers if we were at all smart, we would figure out something else to do with our work lives. A few lawyers have done just that. Maggi Moss is one who apparently has taken a new direction to earn a living. She's a lawyer from Des Moines, Iowa who also graduated from Drake Law School and who has figured out exactly how to put this idea into practice. You see, Maggi is a thoroughbred race horse owner/operator.

Here is a female lawyer who is a criminal defense attorney and a race horse owner. I know Maggi, she's as tough as they come. Anyone that likes people of substance would like Maggi. She’s determined, tough as nails and a woman of substance. Not a lot of people like her because they don't understand or appreciate her toughness. I do, we've know each other since the mid-1980's. We understand each other's drive for success.

So what makes her successful. Maggi is successful at whatever she does because she hates to lose. She never apologizes for the way people feel about her; she lives her life doing what she wants to do. She's a woman of character. But why listen to me when you can hear her describe how she thinks and what she thinks about.  Listen to the video below and take a walk in Maggi's shoes while sitting on top of a racehorse. She’s a tough lady, enduring a tougher life and with character and substance of untold proportions.

To read more about Maggi Moss see these articles.

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Maggi Moss - Owner - Horse Racing Nation  Maggi Moss, an attorney who represents Asmussen, said on Thursday an appeal has been filed with...Read More. Source: sports.espn.go.com · Posted 457 days ...
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Maggi Moss Is an Obsessed Woman - Today's Woman | HighBeam ...  Although this may sound idyllic, Maggi Moss is, by her own definition, a woman obsessed. For 20 years as an attorney, she was obsessed with ...
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