Are you wondering whether quitting without another job lined up is a terrible idea? If you’re dangerously close to rage-quitting, or just completely over your exhausting, ridiculous job as a lawyer, then read on for my answer to the age-old question: is quitting without another job lined up a terrible idea? (Would you rather watch than read? Click play on…
Debi Yadegari is a former lawyer who worked in biglaw and in-house law. These days, she runs Villyge, a company that helps organizations support working parents. This company came out of her own experience of observing the workplace culture and lack of support for working parents in biglaw and in-house law firms. She saw how working parents, or any human…
In your legal career, one of the most common things you’ll see is people leaving. You want to leave your legal career too, but you don’t want to leave the workload behind for someone else or because you feel you owe your firm. Unfortunately, none of this is true. In reality, you are just a widget. You serve a purpose,…
Tarzan Kay is a copywriter that also teaches other people how to write better copy, specifically for emails. I asked Tarzan to join me on the Former Lawyer Podcast after I listened to an interview with her on another podcast. In that interview, she spoke about leaving law school during her third year. Her story is unique in terms of…
This series is available for a limited time, until September 8th, partially in celebration of the starting of the first Guided Track in the Collaborative on September 9th. If you want to get this secret pop-up podcast and learn more about this 5-step framework, just head to formerlawyer.com/popup and put in your name and email. I definitely recommend that you…
There’s one thing you need to know about being miserable as a lawyer: it is not normal. I want to say that again, it’s not normal to be miserable in your job. I often see lawyers who think that it is normal since everyone around them is miserable in their jobs. Even though their complaint is not so much about…
