Careers
Lawyer is Artist, Teacher, Musician and Now, a Recording Artist
Posted May 14, 2008, 10:46 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A Massachusetts plaintiffs lawyer with an unusual career history has released a new jazz CD.
The lawyer, Karen Ristuben, is of counsel at the Boston law firm Meehan, Boyle, Black & Fitzgerald, where she represents plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases, Legal Blog Watch reports. A former paralegal at the firm, she decided to study law at the urging of the firm’s partners, according to a profile posted on Wicked Local.
Before joining the law firm, Ristuben studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and had a budding art career. She decided to pursue the law because of an interest in legal issues relating to public art. While at the law firm, “something in me, maybe the muse, pushed me in another direction. I knew I didn’t want to do this the rest of my life,” she said in the Wicked Local story.
Ristuben took more art classes, did some teaching, and began to take music lessons. Now she plays in a trio with guitarist Mason Daring, a former lawyer who is also a film composer and record producer. The trio’s new CD is called Too Much.