Sentences with phrase «day job as lawyer»

Finally, I interviewed Trevor Shane, author of Children of Paranoia, on how he manages a demanding day job as lawyer to a hedge fund with being a first - time published author.

Some are even quitting their day jobs as lawyers to become legal tech entrepreneurs.

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I juggle a part - time job as lawyer, and the other half of my days are spent blogging (all of that is mixed in with my favorite job (s): new mama and wife).

I didn't relish the idea of taking any leave from my glamorous job as a U.S. Senate lawyer, but it was an emergency and I was assured it would only be for a couple of days.

Here are other links for your consideration: (1) From Courtney Milan, romance author with a day job as an attorney, comments on B&N hiring lawyer superstar David Boies for the DOJ case — http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/ (2) From Patricia C. Wrede, young adult author, comments on managing the backlist and long - range thinking as a writer: http://pcwrede.com/blog/long-range-thinking/

Freshly retired from his day job as a successful Harvard and Yale - educated lawyer, Whit Conrad began to take classes at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture; what started out as a lark became a passion.

As for Mootus cofounder Ziegler, a lawyer, he has a very cool day job as manager of special projects at Harvard Law School's Library Innovation LaAs for Mootus cofounder Ziegler, a lawyer, he has a very cool day job as manager of special projects at Harvard Law School's Library Innovation Laas manager of special projects at Harvard Law School's Library Innovation Lab.

Of course, these days, I'd add a third category as well: those who wanted to be lawyers but simply couldn't find a job.

But for those lawyers who view Second Life as an outlet for imagination that is wasted in a day job or as an underutilized way to attract new business, more power to them.

In looking over Blawg Review # 100, I realized that virtually every past Blawg Review alum is still actively blogging, an amazing feat when given that all of these former hosts hold a «day job,» either as busy practicing lawyers, consultants or law students.

At the end of the day, whether the cause you support is a hot button political issue or a relatively innocuous one, your job as a lawyer is not to promote your own interests; it is to protect and advance the cause of your client.

Most of the time when it comes to poetry — as this particularly appalling ditty is designed to demonstrate — we lawyers should stick to the day job.

Mind you, as Christie Blatchford said in The National Post a week later, imagine the outcry if that statement was made by a man; a «paunchy male defence lawyer,» or a «boy prosecutor» who would have lost his head and his job the next day.

That concession was made in 2011 following a six - day strike — the first by government lawyers in Canadian history — in which both Quebec lawyers» unions walked off the job in protest over their wages, which were as much as 40 - per - cent lower than what provincial lawyers earned in neighbouring barometer - province Ontario.

On top of that, they all have day jobs — some as lawyers and some within the legal tech industry.