I spoke with a client last week who recently left the law. A former estate planning attorney who just recently transitioned to lead the direction and management of planned giving for a local university. In his new role he helps provide the strategic direction and long & short range planning to support the development of

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My daughter is a big fan of the Peanuts cartoons. She shared one strip with me. She said that reading it made her think of the lawyers we help to leave the law. Charlie Brown and his sister Sally are waiting at the school bus stop one morning, lunch bags in hand. Sally looks at

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Deciding to actually leave the law can be a watershed moment in an unhappy attorney’s life. But it also is just the first step of many. That’s what we touch on in Episode 9 & Episode 10 of our Love or Leave the Law Podcast. My co-host and former attorney Adam Ouellette and I begin

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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 reexamining why, whether and how they could remain as a practicing lawyer. That’s what

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