But then they don't realize there's so many other things you have to be good at, like

running a business and handling employees and then you get so far removed from the actual

doing the work that you love.

And so I think a lot of the growth of my business is helping people grow that side of protecting their business.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry

professionals. This is Senior Editor of Patrick McCombone. Today I'm joined by Attorney Carolyn

Crowmeans, who specializes in work for construction firms.

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Carolyn, thanks so much for being on the show.

Thanks so much for having me.

Can you please tell me about your law practice?

Sure, yes.

So I've been a licensed attorney for the last 17 years.

And really, I went to law school and I ended up in the construction industry as a law practice kind of out of necessity.

So my last year of law school, my husband and I

started a material supply company. And so I really dove into that area of law as far as collections

and all of that went. And then I realized that I grew up in the construction industry. So it was

kind of like a fit for me, just how the processes work and everything. And that it was, I'm actually really good at it.

And, you know, and good at it from the sense of trying to keep my clients out of trouble.

I'm guessing that, you know, having grown up in the industry, you understand some of the

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