The steps you can take right now to leave the law behind – Interview on Wired...
Yesterday I was interviewed by Beryl and Mel, the founders of Wired for Success, a UK based videoblog. We had a great conversation, and a few of the topics we discussed include: - The five main steps...
View ArticleThe Second Step in Leaving Law Behind – Cut Your Losses
This article originally appeared on Above the Law. As we discussed in the first article of this series, through Leave Law Behind, I work with many intelligent attorneys who nonetheless are unhappy and...
View ArticleHow you can tell if staying in (and not leaving) the law is actually best for...
Leave Law Behind is a blog and community where we support each and share ideas of how we can leave the law. As I mentioned in a recent comment to a reader, that’s because many of us have realized that...
View ArticleThe way we are thinking about our time in law school is keeping us from...
For many of us, no matter how unhappy we are as an attorney, or how little hope we have, or how much confidence we lack, or how little satisfaction we get, we still can’t leave the law. And we can’t...
View ArticleThe real reason we lawyers are unhappy (and how we can turn it around for the...
We are unhappy as lawyers now. We’re just not clicking in life as much as we’d like to. We’re in a funk. We are not as optimistic as we want to be. We’re wondering where all of our potential went. I...
View ArticleWhy our law degree won’t be considered a waste even if we leave the law
Annie Little, a blogger and writer at Attorney at Work, asked me and a number of other lawyers and bloggers to write about numerous topics on the law and alternative careers to the law. Annie had me...
View ArticleWhy you should forgive yourself
I began law school in the Fall of 1996 here in San Francisco. Around that same time here in the San Francisco Bay Area, Netscape went public (1995), Yahoo was founded and began hiring (1995), and...
View ArticleWhy law school might have been a mistake
Last week, I wrote a guest post for Above the Law’s Career Center, about why I went to law school. It was a personal piece … about how I didn’t really think critically about going to law school, and...
View ArticlePracticing law is amazing!
One of the first questions I ask people who call me to leave the law is “Why do you want to leave the law?” And if the answer isn’t convincing, I won’t work with them to leave. Rather, we’ll focus on...
View ArticleHow To Not Regret Your Decision of Going to Law School (Even if You Now Want...
For many years, I regretted attending law school – in the mid 90’s I went to University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and as a result, drove me to a career as an unfulfilled attorney, and...
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