As the traditional legal career path evolves into more of a career “zig zag,” an increasing number of lawyers, like me, are finding themselves pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities.
Crafty Counsel is an online learning and development website for in house lawyers that I founded in October last year. At the outset, I saw that there was an opportunity in the space and knew that I wanted to build a business from scratch, but leaving legal practice was still a step into the unknown, and a lot of my peers definitely still think I’m pretty crazy.
