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…
Today I’m sharing a bit from my conversation with Annie Little, a former lawyer turned coach for lawyers. I had spoken to her before for the podcast. But, I wanted to talk to her again as she reflects o living with ADHD as a lawyer after recently being diagnosed. This is something that I wanted to talk about but didn’t…
Today, I am sharing my conversation with David Sparks. David practiced law for close to 30 years and he has only recently left his job in the law to focus on his growing side hustle, MacSparky. In our conversation, we spoke about many different things including what he has found surprising about leaving the law, some of the responses he’s…
