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“Design before development leads to dead ends.”
― Liz Brown

“Other ex-lawyers become advocates in entirely different fields. Jen Atkins went from law to nursing, spending several years at home in between careers. As a cardiology nurse at Boston Children’s Hospital, she now advocates for the youngest patients at a critical time. One of her long-term goals is to become an advocate for improving health care on a national level. Counseling”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“The turning point came when I started to think in detail about what I had liked and disliked about my work throughout my career. With help from Richard Bolles’s What Color Is Your Parachute?, I realized that the parts of my law career I had liked best could point me toward my next career. Skimming the book had done little for me, but completing Bolles’s flower diagram, or what he refers to as “that one piece of paper,” made all the difference. Then”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“With few exceptions, the men who are running the government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“You don’t need to know where you are going to end up at the right place. When I started my search, I cast a wide net for potential new jobs. I asked for a lot of interviews. Then I headed for development. I spent a year managing an angel network before deciding to switch into academia full time. Every step led me to the next one, but I couldn’t see the whole path at any point in the process. 2.”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“A time-honored tactic of fighting gossip is simply to produce more gossip,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“You can use your skills to do any number of things, as long as you can talk other people into it. As part 2 of this book explains, what you’ve enjoyed doing in the past can be the starting point for an entirely different career. I thought that my experience counseling clients might lead to a successful career in development. My experience organizing networks of women lawyers helped me qualify for a job organizing networks of largely female angel investors. My love of talking in courtrooms translated to a love of teaching in classrooms. But I had to reframe those skills and make those connections before I could convince anyone else to do so. If I can do it, you can too.”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“like so many diarists, Harrison probably didn’t turn to his journal when he was happy as much as when he wasn’t.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“famed attorney Earl Rogers, a dandy, drunk, and spectacularly brilliant defense attorney, who also kept an office there. Rogers’s courtroom antics drew packed crowds and provided the inspiration for Perry Mason.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Galena”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Abwehr, the Nazis’ civilian counterintelligence agency.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“two letters, both unsigned with no return address.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Will had broken his arm playing golf and been forced to wear a cast.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“and named Harrison vice president.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“When I applied to law school, I thought I might keep working on family policy issues, with the greater credibility a law degree confers, but I wasn’t sure. Law school was a socially acceptable way to defer a more detailed career decision that I lacked the self-knowledge to make. Lacking a lodestar, I wanted to keep my options as wide open as possible. I”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“$150 million,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“2010, when the Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, allowing unlimited and untraceable contributions from corporations and other entities to flood US elections.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Identifying the skills you enjoy using is the first step in finding work you love. It’s often surprisingly hard to do this, especially if you haven’t liked your work in a long time. Many lawyers have trouble remembering what they enjoy, aside from distracting themselves. Depression, which affects lawyers disproportionately, can exacerbate this problem. Friends and selected relatives can help with this process. When you ask people who are close to you what they think you’re good at, you may be surprised at their responses.”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“This calamity, though, was easily managed by ordering another $45,000 worth of marble and travertine.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“For Mary-Alice Brady, an ex-lawyer who started an online community for entrepreneurs, using a career coach made a big difference in her transition. She found a coach by interviewing a few candidates, whom she had found through recommendations from friends, and choosing the one she liked best. Working with a coach taught her to be proactive in her job search, rather than simply reacting to the many opportunities presented to her. One of the most useful parts of working with a coach, she found, was doing homework. Her coach asked her to answer this question in writing every day: “What did I enjoy today and what was a challenge to me?” Her written responses gave her fodder to discuss with her coach during the talks they scheduled every few weeks. Having someone else hold her accountable for her progress on a regular basis also helped her develop better career search habits.”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“people and their desires were raw material to be turned into commodities.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“In America, a frontier isn’t simply a line between two regions or between what is known and unknown as much as it is a boundary between a resource that hasn’t been monetized and one that has.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“I should point out that I made virtually no money teaching those courses. It was, for all purposes, a barely paid internship, and I made the most of it. I threw myself into every extracurricular activity that might help me make connections. I volunteered to organize the regional conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. One of the first people I met at my first conference is still one of my most valued mentors. I wrote papers and presented research that wasn’t required of me as an adjunct. At”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“simulated drowning,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Douglas Ullman,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Finding a good career coach takes some sifting. Marcie Schorr Hirsch, a principal with Hirsch/Hills Associates, recommends looking for a coach with four different qualities: 1. A regular habit of gathering new information from disparate sources to maintain a broad awareness about what is going on in the world; 2. The ability to see patterns and find trends in large, complex data sets; 3. The creative ability to predict how your talents and values might translate into existing positions and jobs that could be created; and 4. A personal chemistry that engenders trust, since outcomes are usually better when the client enjoys the coach’s style and company. Getting”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“Directed writing can also help you sort out the skills you have enjoyed using. It can be surprisingly helpful to sit down with pen and paper, or keyboard and screen, and write a few paragraphs about past experiences you have found personally rewarding. Write out as many of these experiences as you can remember. Before”
― Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have

“Mark Twain wrote, “With forty years’ experience of human assfulness and vanity at banquets, I have never seen anything of the sort that could remotely approach the assfulness and complacency of this coarse and vulgar and incomparably ignorant peasant’s glorification of himself.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Soon the natural amphitheater became known as the Bowl, so called for the shape of the land, not the now-iconic band shell.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“This is a game to me. If I were to stop it I would die.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire