[CASEY’S NOTE:  The following is a guest post by a Leave Law Behind reader, Kate Morthland (Linkedin Profile), full of detailed tips and guidance as to how she left the law for a career in Public Policy.] I make most of my life decisions based on unrelenting intuition.  If I have a “gut feeling” about

​Read More

A reader sent in this link of what I’m calling the “song of the year” for us unhappy attorneys considering leaving the law. It’s from the show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, which details the adventures of an anxiety and depression suffering real-estate lawyer who panics when her top New York City law firm offers her partnership and instead relocates to

​Read More

There are lawyers out there who really care about the work they do, who find satisfaction and fulfillment in being an attorney, who enjoy reading and soaking up the finer points of the profession, and who find meaning in representing their clients. You are not that type of person. You went to law school and

​Read More