Most clients would probably consider a lawyer who spends a sizable portion of her day dreaming up adventures for a pair of pint-sized detectives to be a cause for mild-alarm, if not a a stricter interpretation of term “billable hours.”

Not to worry. Corporate attorney and litigator Jill Diamond isn’t stealing company time, just taking it out in installments. She left her full-time job at a law firm shortly after giving birth to her now preschool-aged son. In between dropping him off at school and churning out installments in her children’s novel mystery series “Lou Lou and Pea,” Diamond reviews, drafts and negotiates non-disclosure agreements for venture capital clients on a freelance basis.

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