Living My Best Life
Hi and welcome to my firm. If you read my bio you are probably making a funny face or scratching your head and thinking to yourself “What’s up with this chick?” I ask myself this question every day.
One day I woke up and decided to go to law school. I had no great passion for the law and I didn’t even want to be a lawyer, but I was just unhappy in that moment and wanted to get away from where I was at. Law school seemed like the farthest option both mentally and geographically.
It wasn’t the first time I simply decided to do something and seemingly willed it into existence – and it wasn’t the last. But that moment was a time when my approach to the world really changed. I believed in myself. I believed that I could make anything possible. Most importantly, I believed that I could impact others to make things happen too. And, I did. I don’t even know how.
My last year in law school was filled with milestones. I married my husband (who I refer to as Big) and my daughter was born (who I refer to as “the Little”). I also started my first real job working for a judge as a lawclerk. My path in life seemed fixed. Almost static. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy as a pig in shit. I had everything I didn’t even know I wanted. From my bio you can see that I seized every possible opportunity and achieved every goal (even goals I didn’t know that I had).
From 2003 to 2021, I built a successful law practice/business, became an expert in my specialty, and had the respect of my peers. But I hated it. I hated the court life. I hated having vacations interrupted by work. I hated never being able to walk away from it. No matter how much I delegated, I was always the boss and I was always ultimately responsible for everything – all the time.
In 2021, I walked away from a 7-figure law business with the intention of doing nothing. That lasted about 5 minutes. Since then, I have finished a master's degree, went back to law school to get an advanced law degree, opened two new businesses, and learned an entirely new area of law. I was so unhappy being a litigator that once I walked away from that life and refocused myself on finding joy each day and bringing that same sense to others, work suddenly became easy again.
With this new firm and focus on artists and small businesses, I will bring the same tenacity, the same drive, and the same sense of purpose to my work. More importantly, I want to make sure that others are pursuing their dreams, their passions, their joy – and that my clients are encouraged to live their best life. MadJam Music & Entertainment Law is where I can pursue my passion for working with artists and creatives, by helping them navigate the complexities of the law.
