Happy Lawyer Profiles

Aman Costigan refuses to let the law be her sole identity. When she first started practicing law, she emulated what she thought a successful lawyer should be.

When lawyers talk about changing careers in search of a happier life, they are often talking about leaving big law. For Daniel Lee, the opposite was true.

Leaving a job you have been at for nearly two decades can feel scary, but when the perfect opportunity comes along, you have to take it.

By the time Erika Verret became a lawyer, she already had over twenty years of experience in another high-stress career. When Erika started her firm, Bridge Legal & HR Solutions, she did it with the goal of creating a work environment free from the high levels of stress she found in other jobs

John Paul Rodrigues has six jobs and he only uses the title “lawyer” in two of them. On top of all that, he was at one time an unintended viral music sensation in China, so J.P. is truly a multi talented guy. J.P.’s path to becoming a happy lawyer, podcaster, instructor and program coordinator was far from direct.

A lot of lawyers resist doing anything in their practices that has not been done before. That doesn’t make sense to Eli Zbar. Eli started Arora Zbar LLP, with his law school friend and overall brilliant litigator, Ravneet Arora. Arora Zbar LLP launched during the Covid-19 pandemic and was virtual from the start.