The Recovering Lawyer


"Features posts for high-achieving lawyers who are dissatisfied with their current career. We focus on helping those lawyers discover and land their true life's career and to handling the angst and anxiety of being in the wrong career. It is a forum of support, although many of the subscribers would rather remain anonymous."

Author: Jennifer Loud Ungar is the president and founder of Career Moves, a career services and products firm in Denver.

Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Work/Life Balance • Consultant

Recent Posts from The Recovering Lawyer


  • My Lawyer Jokes (It’s Big Firm)…

      Training means – research day and night – ask other associates and librarian for help but not the partner. Then bill 2 hours for it. Good culture means all associates get super drunk at…

  • Video – Lawyer Dreams

  • Guest Blogger- Twittering to a Job

    I am a featured Guest Blogger on the http://www.cheezhead.com/ website today. Check out my article here: twitter 101: get yourself a new job Mon, Feb 23, 2009 Featured The hiring market is bleak. Last week…

  • I am cited in an article – see below:

    Here is a career article I was quoted in recently:     Here is a selection of career experts’ best tips for anyone who wants to change careers in 2009:   Ask the Right People…

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  • Has Your Ego Been Blocking Your Success?

      One of the hardest parts of a career change for lawyers is that it is an identity change. We are talking about an emotional attachment – not a business one. Remember the line from,…

  • Happy New Year!

    I hope everyone enjoyed their new year’s celebrations.  We were celebrating with my parents in Aspen, CO.  Although the town was shut down with the bomb scare, our party was not affected.  We had a…

  • Getting Ready

    I am reading a book called You2 (You Squared), by Price Pritchett for my mastermind.  I wanted to write a quick note about something that stood out to me when I was reading it late…

  • When to move forward?

    Sometimes we really don’t know when to move forward in our lives.  The most important piece of information I can give you is to listen to your gut.  That means making sure you are not…

  • excuses, excuses!

    NO, I am not going to blog about excuses and how they keep you from moving forward.  Actually, this time I am going to give you my list of excuses!  As you can tell, I…