Jen Kash is a former partner at Quinn Emanuel in San Francisco, where she practiced for nearly two decades. But the years of stress and 3500 billable hours took their toll, and she ultimately took a sabbatical that has turned permanent. She’s currently living in St. Vincent and the Grenadines where she’s started a non-profit called Virgin Independence, which helps transitional youth in finding jobs and training. She is also in the early stages of building a retreat for lawyers in need of support managing their stress in healthy ways. Jen is amazingly honest and upfront about her own struggles with burnout and dependency and gives us an important lesson in the very real health risks of pushing yourself too far.
Jan Newman leaves Big Law to earn her PhD and become a licensed clinical psychologist and executive coach
Heather Hubbard leaves law firm partnership to start a personal and professional development company
Summer Challenge: Take Action
Alex Su leaves big law litigation for legal technology sales
Mary Cobb tells about how she took a break from law to learn to paint in Italy, and now combines her careers in law and art
Alexis Robertson talks leaving litigation to run diversity and inclusion programs in Big Law, and what really needs to happen to achieve progress
Annie Little talks about shifts in law practice and career searches in the Covid-19 era
Chris Gillett leaves litigation to become a headshot photographer
Josh Ferguson leaves legislative practice to be a stay-at-home dad
Angela Han tells us how she built a dual career in law and health coaching
Travis Hornsby tells us how to break free from the student loan albatross
Clara Jung leans into her impulsivity and leaves litigation to build her own interior design firm
Annie Little helps rid us of lawyer-brain and get on the path to a happier career
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Adam Oliver tries multiple law firms and practice areas before leaving practice to run his own legal recruiting company
Jonathan Laubinger has no regrets about leaving practice before he even started for a career as an actuary
Jonathan Liu leaves employment law to become a real estate agent and investor
Rachel Solomon leaves litigation to pursue storytelling: first as a freelance writer, then as a novelist, and ultimately through brand creation at her own firm
Adam Friedl tells us how he transitioned from public interest law to software engineering
Melissa Lorenzo-Herve tells us how she ditched big law for a dual career in legal publishing and fashion
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