The coolest thing
What was the coolest thing you did today? Close a multi million dollar deal? Score a huge new client? Make partner? Have your picture in the paper? If any of the above happened to anyone in the...
View ArticleYour life as a movie
When you envision your life as a movie, with you the hero or heroine and main star and an audience of ticket payers watching your every step and listening to your every line, you allow yourself the...
View ArticleWhy you might just need to change your plans
Many of us who consider leaving the law feel that we may have lost our way. We feel like we’re just in a weird stage. We often look around and wonder if this is it. We don’t think we’re as cool any...
View ArticleWhy it’s so great that you have a law degree
Many of us are sad and dismayed about how little our law degree is ostensibly doing for us nowadays. Current law students see the depressing job market and wonder how they will ever pay off their...
View ArticleWe can see it. We can feel it. It’s so close.
For those of us unhappy with our current practice of the law, we don’t really like what we see and feel. We currently see ourselves as a person not matching the potential we set out to meet. We see...
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8 things I wish I knew when I decided to leave the law
This blog is almost four years old. The spirit and adventure of Leave Law Behind began in 2004, when I myself left the law for good. And it started to really take shape in earnest in the summer of...
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How blaming ourselves is just a distraction from our goal of leaving the law
In many of the emails and comments I receive weekly, there is a lot of blame running around amongst us. And it is mainly being pointed at ourselves. I shouldn’t have gone to law school. I shouldn’t...
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5 simple ways for us unhappy attorneys to start becoming an extraordinary,...
Leaving the law It was in 2004 that I really left the law. That is when I left my in-house job at Workshare. The job was too reactive – and not proactive enough – for me (I was tasked with creating...
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The horns blare and the drums beat and your power is now limitless
Okay, quick test. What is 9X9? 5X3? 7X6? 8X8? 13X8? Pretty easy those first four multiplication questions, but that last one, hmm. Had to think about it, didn’t you. Here’s how I finally figured it...
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The most important new year’s resolution you can make right now
It’s the end of December, and many of us are making new year’s resolutions for 2015. Carrying through with these resolutions, however, can be difficult. This happens because they can be too demanding,...
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A break
On Sunday mornings, I play basketball with a group of 10 to 20 guys at the neighborhood park. They say the tradition goes back over 30 years. And the rules haven’t changed much in that time: 4 on 4...
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3 ways I co-opt fear to use to my advantage
Lately, I’ve been working through how to deal with fear. In our lives as people in general, and as attorneys in particular, we face a lot of fears. Some we share with most everyone else (fear of...
View ArticleHow I have fun with anxiety
I have spent a lot of time during the holidays going to new movies with my two kids. As with many of you, we like to go to movies to have fun, to be distracted, to laugh as we relive the stories later...
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