#126 How a Bottle of Wine Started a Big Law Litigator's Career Pivot

What happens when a test you take over a bottle of wine on a Thursday night ends up rewriting your entire career? For Kyle Robisch, founding partner of Latitude Legal's Tampa office, discovering that his number one strength was "Woo" — the drive to win others over and forge genuine connections — hit like a revelation. He was a Big Law litigator spending his days in conflict and argument, and here was hard evidence pointing him somewhere entirely different. In this episode of Lawyers Who Learn, host David Schnurman, CEO of Lawline, sits down with Kyle to unpack what the CliftonStrengths assessment revealed about his true superpower — and how that self-knowledge eventually powered a leap from senior associate to legal talent entrepreneur. Kyle explains why seeing three people-focused traits at the top of his results felt jarring for someone whose job was to argue and fight. That jarring feeling became an inflection point. The heaviness he felt in litigation wasn't weakness — it was misalignment. David shares his own results and together they explore what it means to stop performing someone else's version of success and start living inside your zone of genius. He also reflects on Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People and its core lesson: give freely, build genuinely, and good things follow. It's a philosophy he now lives daily at Latitude, where his job is the connection — helping high-caliber lawyers find flexible, fulfilling ways to practice. The takeaway is simple but hard-won: find the work that doesn't just use your skills, but gives you energy.