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Cara Maciel

Cara Maciel

Founding Partner and Chair of Labor & Employment Practice at Conn Maciel Carey LLP, a boutique employer defense law firm in Washington, D.C.

Jul 27, 2026

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Sure.
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were obvious.
3:08
And so it sent me into private practice.
3:10
But the very first few years of private practice, I set aside a lot of my income because I was solo by myself living on my own with the idea of being able to pay off my loans very early so that I had the flexibility to choose the type of career path that I wanted to without feeling indebted to loans or a large big law private practice.
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So I did that.
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But once I fell into private practice, I really fell into the love of law of private practice.
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And I quickly got into employment law.

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What do you what processes do you have in place or what do you do to make sure that your Atlanta employees feel the same way about the firm as your California employees, as your D.C. employees? Yeah, that is a huge

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