"[H]e awoke one morning and made the decision to quit law and write novels." Robert Dugoni has indeed moved on from the practicing law to writing novels. Part of his story (from his Web site):
Robert Dugoni was born in Pocatello, Idaho and raised in Burlingame, California. Growing up the middle child in a family of ten siblings, Dugoni jokes that he didn't get much of a chance to talk, so he wrote. By the seventh grade he knew he wanted to be a writer.
Dugoni wrote his way to Stanford University, receiving writing awards along the way, and majored in communications/journalism and creative writing while working as a reporter for the Stanford Daily. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and worked briefly as a reporter in the Metro Office and the San Gabriel Valley Office of the Los Angeles Times.
In what Dugoni likes to call "a moment of insanity" he attended the UCLA law school and practiced law for 13 years in San Francisco. While practicing law he satisfied his artistic thirst studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and eventually began to audition for and be cast in equity and non-equity shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His longing to return to writing never wavered, however, and in 1999 he awoke one morning and made the decision to quit law and write novels. . . .
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Here's another Life After Law story for you on a golden and windy autumn day. Former corporate lawyer Susan Kaiser Greenland is now teaching schoolchildren about their minds through her InnerKids Foundation. From her Web site . . .
InnerKids is a national leader in teaching children self-directed skills to help them become more attentive and resilient. These skills take into account developmental differences, train focused attention and balance, and acknowledge clarity and compassion (the New ABC’s) as part of the process of becoming more attentive and aware.
Click here to watch Greenland in action with a classroom of children; you don't want to miss this group. Quite a contrast from a working day in corporate law, yes?
A recent article in the New York Times—"In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind"—described these mindfulness programs in schools (and mentioned InnerKids) . . .
The techniques, among them focused breathing and concentrating on a single object, are loosely adapted from the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, the molecular biologist who pioneered the secular use of mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts in 1979 to help medical patients cope with chronic pain, anxiety and depression. Susan Kaiser Greenland, the founder of the InnerKids Foundation, which trains schoolchildren and teachers in the Los Angeles area, calls mindfulness “the new ABC’s — learning and leading a balanced life.”
Greenland also teaches mindfulness to lawyers. This Mindfulness for Lawyers course included:
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"[H]e awoke one morning and made the decision to quit law and write novels." Robert Dugoni has indeed moved on from the practicing law to writing novels. Part of his story (from his Web site):
