Today on the blog, you’ll learn about Aliza Shatzman, a former lawyer turned co-founder of a non-profit called Accountability Project focused on creating change in the legal system. Aliza shares the circumstances that led her to decide to leave the legal system and start The Legal Accountability Project. The Legal Accountability Project seeks to ensure that as many law clerks…
Welcome back to the Former Lawyer Blog. On this episode of the podcast, Sarah had a conversation with Adam Pascarella about his journey in writing a book while leaving the law. Adam is currently the founder and CEO of Second Order Capital Management. But before that, Adam worked in Biglaw as an associate and ended up writing a book while…
If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you know that I practiced law for ten years, and now, I help unhappy lawyers ditch their soul-sucking jobs. On this blog, I share advice for aspiring former lawyers and interviews from my podcast to help you through the process of leaving and finding a new career. Today, I want to talk…
On the latest episode of the Former Lawyer Podcast, Sarah spoke with Navneet Mann, a former lawyer and listener of the podcast turned professional coach! She has her own practice, helping lawyers and other business professionals with business and mindset coaching. Navneet joins the podcast to talk about deciding to leave the legal field for coaching. In this conversation, they talked…
As you know, on the Former Lawyer Podcast, I share advice and strategies for aspiring former lawyers. And, I do interviews with former lawyers who have left the law behind to find careers and lives that they love, but should everyone leave the law? I want to talk about whether or not I think everyone should leave the law. Now,…
Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Karen Spencer. Karen is a former lawyer who responded to my requests for guests who had experience in patent law. Karen has an interesting background, coming to the legal profession from engineering. First, she wanted to work in general commercial law but ended up in patent law. She soared through the legal realm, even…
