A few weeks ago I decided I need to get out from the home office and do some in-person lawyering. This was partly motivated by having been in DC for a three-week trial (which re-inflamed my courtroom itch) and partly because I found myself feel like a cooped up housewife descending into madness. I had plenty of work to do, but felt like the days kind of blended together, and that there was too much cleaning up dog fur and not enough adult conversation.
So I rang a couple of lawyers in town that looked nice adjudging from their lawyer bios online, got to chatting with the right person, and ended up getting a pretty sweet lawyer gig about 7 minutes from the house. It’s flexible, I can continue freelancing, and I’m just aga over the managing attorney. The attorney in the next office over and I share a pre-law career in archaeology, and the other attorneys are pretty nice and dynamic also.
Suffice it to say, I’m still here, although I may be a little slower with the posts. I am still publishing Wax Poetic, my legal writing monthly newsletter, and taking freelance gigs as they come up and appeal to me. In fact, I just wrote my first magazine article for an up and coming national publication. I’ll, of course, update when that gets published.
My new situation is a tribute to the cold call, which I was inspired to try by a recent post by Carolyn Elefant on Nolo.
Hope all is well out in webland, friends!
Lawyer On! Kimberly