Fox News is doing an upcoming feature about the most interesting people in each borough of New York City and representing Manhattan will be Nathan Sawaya, a lawyer-turned-Lego sculptor, who is known worldwide as the Brick Artist. The former Winston & Strawn associate and NYU Law graduate, who now creates art primarily from Lego bricks, started sculpting while he was practicing as therapy. “Some people went to the gym at the end of the day. I’d want to create something.” He initially sculpted items out of clay and wire, and even produced an early series out of candy. “And then one day in 2000 I just said, what about this toy I had as a child?” So Sawaya built items out of Lego and posted them to his website. When BrickArtist.com crashed in 2004 from the traffic, he realized it was time to leave the firm, after almost five years, to pursue his passion full time.
In the current transformation of the legal industry, lawyers, law students and most legal professionals are reevaluating their roles. The economy is prompting them to consider their alternatives and is forcing them to determine where they are finding the greatest level of satisfaction. Some, like Sawaya, have made that journey and their experience offers a number of lessons to help guide those who remain.
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