And now I feel bad bacause I read that she has schizophrenia…

I’m sorry but this made me laugh so hard that my assistant came running into my office to see what was wrong!

Oops nesting fail.

I listen while I’m taking my 10,000-step walks. I also listen in the car during my (short) commute, but I zone out a lot in the car. I really like the ones that tell a single story in depth, like Serial, or S-Town, and so on. Both seasons of In the Dark are just great. And my all time favorite is Dead Eyes, the story of how an actor was fired from a small part in the 80s miniseries Band of Brothers and decades later decided to find out why it happened.

I was in private practice for eight years doing telecom regulatory work, and now work for a federal agency. When I was in private practice, I spent A LOT of time drafting – regulatory proceeding comments, etc. I also spent a lot of time directly counseling clients/working groups on strategy. Basically, a lot of research/pleading writing…lots of client interaction. In my practice, there wasn’t really “opposing counsel” as such. There are a lot of voices on an issue in the regulatory space – and you agree with them some of the time and disagree with them the rest of the time. I spent a lot of time working with other groups/entities that we could partner with on various issues – but it wasn’t often an adversarial relationship. Overall level of stress in private practice was high – lots of deadlines, lots of “bet the company” issues. But that likely had more to do with my type of client. Now that I’m a government lawyer, I’d never go back to private practice.

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