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Find Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond the Bar


Are you are bit restless—satisfied with life and career but concerned you are being shaped by your surroundings? Do you avoid serious discussion about retirement because you don’t know what to do if not lawyering? Have you thought about slowing down but don’t know where to start? Would you like to pursue other interests?

Find Your Landing Zone is a combination of tools, advice, and inspiring stories that will spark the motivation you need to launch a new career, slow down a bit, or embark upon retirement.

You will learn:

  • To look change in the eye – and embrace it
  • That you don’t need a mountain of money to switch gears
  • Ideas for negotiating your exit plan with management
  • Tips for solo and small firm practitioners who are thinking about what’s next
  • How to progress from thinking about the future to making it happen


Find Your Landing Zone will prepare you for a fulfilling life beyond the practice of law.

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About The Author

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 mid-west 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 Find Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond The Bar, 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.

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/ or drop him a note at [email protected].

Upcoming Events:

Available Online – Navigating Your Career’s Direction Ethically, Mindfully and Strategically:  Find Your Landing Zone

American Bar Association Panel Discussion

It took place on June 22, 2023
Now Available Online

Register Here

Past Events:

Kevin Speaking
Legal Liftoff: Charting Your Path After Law

Indianapolis State Bar Association Senior Lawyers Section

Friday, July 19, 2024

Charting Your Well-Being Path

A Program for Thought Kitchen
 
June 14, 2024
 
Find Your Landing Zone – Planning for Life Beyond the Bar

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum
Workshop –  Seminar

July 19, 2024
December 13, 2023
August 11, 2023
February 15, 2023
December 8, 2022
August 18, 2022 

Navigating Your Career’s Direction Ethically, Mindfully and Strategically:  Find Your Landing Zone

American Bar Association Panel Discussion

It took place on June 22, 2023
Now Available Online

Plotting Your Course From a Financial and Career Perspective
Indianapolis Bar Association
Workshop –  Seminar
September 1, 2022
 
 

Podcasts

Best Practices for Law Firm Exits | Counsel-Cast.com

Counsel Cast

In this episode, writer and lawyer Kevin Kevin McGoff discusses the complexities and best practices surrounding law firm exits. Drawing from his extensive legal career, Kevin emphasizes the importance of self-reflection, understanding personal strengths and weaknesses, and seeking professional advice when contemplating a career change. List to the Podcast

How to Plan Your Post Law Life

There are lawyers who love the practice of law so much, they’ll only leave it feet first, in a box. But for those who’d prefer to exit the bar before closing time, Kevin McGoff has advice on planning that next chapter.    Listen to the Podcast

Bootstrapped Unicorns Podcast

What About Finding Your Landing Zone

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Indiana Lawyer Podcast

Indiana Lawyer Podcast featuring Kevin McGoff

How’d It Happen Podcast

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Managing the Transition to Life After Legal Practice

Michigan Bar Podcast

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Endorsements

If you're an attorney facing retirement or leaving the practice, Kevin McGoff's Find Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond the Bar is a must-read. This book offers a wealth of practical advice and inspiring stories that will help you navigate this new phase of your life. McGoff's insights into the challenges and opportunities of retirement are spot-on, and his writing style is warm, engaging, and down-to-earth. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to make the most of their post-legal career..
Cynthia Sharp,
Cynthia Sharp,Author of The Lawyer’s Guide to Financial Planning, Director of Attorney Development The Sharper Lawyer, Director of Client Relationships The Legal Burnout SolutionJohn Doe
I found Find Your Landing Zone to be a very enjoyable reading, informative, and a very important tool for lawyers and other professionals, wed to their professional identity, to help them understand how to transition to their full-time individual identity. This book will not only help others find their landing zone, but it will also help them understand that there is a "Landing Zone" possible at any age in any situation. McGoff weaves his personal story, along with the stories of others, to bring his message home. Read it, be inspired by it, and use it as a tool to plan and reach your goals.
Gary P. Bauer
Gary P. BauerAuthor: Hire and Retire, A Plan for a Continuing Income Stream in Retirement from any Practice, and Solo Lawyer by Design - A Plan for Success in any Practice, Distinguished Visiting Professor, WMU Cooley Law School
I have been talking about this book with my clients and friends a LOT. There is an incredible amount of interest in this encouraging message.  This process is not just for attorneys!
Corinne S. Henderson
Corinne S. HendersonCPA, CVA, MBA, Henderson & Gardner CPAs
Kevin McGoff has written a concise and practical guide to help us step back from the treadmill of work long enough to consider ways to evolve and reinvent ourselves, capitalizing on our attributes and experiences as we grow and change in ways that enhance our own lives and the lives of others. Kevin’s crazy experiences and sense of humor color this quick and easy read. I highly recommend it!
Timothy J. KellyKelly, M.D.,
Kevin McGoff's gift of relating, inspiring, prodding, and problem-solving about his life post-legal career will pay off for any reader who takes this book to heart.  Whether you are on a long flight, on your back porch, or a beach, reading this humorous inspirational book will help you envision your future, plan for it, and realize it!  If you want to organize and execute a strategy on how to live out the second half of your life to the fullest, you need to read this book. What are you waiting for?
The Honorable Susan Brooks,United States Congresswoman, Indiana’s 5 th District (2013-2021)
France may not be your destination, but you do have a desired destination. Like most lawyers though, including me, you’re so focused on living life on a day-to-day, even billable hour-to-billable hour, basis that you don’t have a plan for getting to your destination. Kevin McGoff knows that lawyers are very good at asking questions, but also understands how much being “busy” stops us from asking the questions now that could lead to a fulfilling life after the law. Find Your Landing Zone is a thoughtful, helpful, call-to-action lawyers can heed to start figuring out their plan for their desired destination.
Brian S. FaughnanPast-President, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Blogger at www.faughnanonethics.com
Reading Kevin McGoff’s book altered my retirement trajectory. Although financially secure and physically fit, once retired I experienced lifestyle turbulence. Find Your Landing Zone helped me overcome feelings of diminished status while fine-tuning my personal transition. I recommend this appealing, laser-focused book to any professional nearing or beginning their post-career journey.
John SweeneyCPM, Barrett & Stokely Management, President, retired
If your goal is to have another life after lawyering, Kevin McGoff's book, Find Your Landing Zone – Life Beyond The Bar, provides food for thought on how to engineer that outcome. Kevin relies on his decades of law practice and his successful transition to a different chapter of life to expand on the ways to address attorney well-being and seek self-fulfillment.
Kim D. RinglerEthics Lawyer, Past President, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
Kevin McGoff's Find Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond the Bar is about more than planning a successful retirement; it’s an invitation to live your life with intention at any stage of your career. Kevin has combined wisdom, storytelling, and practical exercises into a handbook for supporting professional well-being. This should be required reading for all law students, and I know it’s going on the list of resources for my coaching clients.
Loretta OleksyMindful Life and Work Coach, Thought Kitchen LLC
Finally, a book that is a must-read for every attorney over 50 and every attorney who hopes to reach 50! Kevin McGoff’s book is honest, real, and informative and provides a clear path forward that all lawyers and Judges should take to heart.
Steven David,Justice of The Indiana Supreme Court (2010-2022), and Colonel, US Army Reserve (Ret)
Find Your Landing Zone: Life Beyond The Bar demonstrates that there is no reason to leave your future to chance when you can create it! Speaking directly to lawyers who have steered clear of thinking about a life after the law, Kevin McGoff shares honest and relatable journeys to remind us that having a simple, practical, and realistic plan can be both personally transformative and empowering.
Andi M. MetzelPast-President Indiana State Bar Association, Partner - Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
As a “recovering attorney,” my identity as a lawyer has often held me back from following my heart and fully reimagining my life and career path. This book unequivocally helped me commit to planning a future beyond the practice of law that is true to my desires and goals. Kevin’s practical advice, candor, and humor turned an easily overwhelming process into a delicious opportunity for introspection and reframing one’s purpose. Highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to chart their own course.
Rebecca HowlettAttorney, and Contemplative Practices Teacher, The Legal Burnout Solution, legalburnout.com
After attending the program “Finding the Landing Zone – Life Beyond the Bar”, I read Kevin’s book. It will revolutionize how you approach retirement. It offers sound advice to anyone wishing to combine quantity and quality of life. A great read for all ages.
Mark McNeelyAttorney and Past President, Indiana Continuing Education Forum
Kevin’s storytelling and thoughtful contemplation of his past and his path to his landing place are captivating, humorous, and engaging from start to finish. This book was written for every reader who is searching for what’s next and uncertain where to turn. Kevin artfully guides you through specific steps to take to plan your best self and does so with wit and wisdom. I was laughing out loud as he recants a childhood ambush, and at the same time pondering throughout how to put his plan into action in my life. This book is a great read to get you started on the path to your best self in a curious, logical, informed, and thoughtful way. Bon travail, Kevin!
Christine Hayes HickeyManaging Partner, Rubin Levin

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Visit Kevin online at https://surlaroutekm.com/about/ or drop him a note at [email protected].

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