Legal Career Advice for Lawyers & Law Students

Colleen Glynn was a senior vice president of distribution for a leading multi-media company based in Florida, she spent 75 percent of her time traveling across the country negotiating multi-million dollar deals for distribution of domestic and international television networks. Over time, she found herself wanting more in her career, as well as wanting to offer her company more….

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Linda Markowsky had been an emergency room nurse for many years and thought she had seen everything. But when she took a part-time job working as a sexual assault nurse examiner she began to feel she was on the set of CSI. “The legal aspect of working for the special victim’s unit was so interesting, and when our assistant DA told me she’d indicted a serial rapist’s DNA, I was hooked and wanted to learn more about the law,” says Linda…

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Richard Krukar was, a research and development engineer, heading up a software group for a company that built equipment used in making computer chips in the 1990s. He had flirted with the idea of taking the bar exam but never considered going to a traditional law school because three years of law school didn't appear nearly as fun as being an engineer. The 1990s were particularly good years for engineers because the Internet was going mainstream…

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