This is a critical lesson for all lawyers as we tend to hold ourselves back from exploring other career options because we think there is only one way. She recognized that there was no “one” way, one environment, one path to being a lawyer.
While others seemed to excel, she found coaches and tools to make law school work for her in her own way. While others were linear learners, she decided she needed diagrams and flowcharts to learn. “The” Way Is Holding Lawyers Back From Other Careersĭuring Ivy’s law school days, she had an important realization that there was no one way to do law school. The key is to learn to play in a way that works for you, much as Ivy did in law school. This is important because many lawyers leave law school and enter into legal practice and are surprised by how different the rules of the game are. She wanted to give up, but then she realized that she was just playing a particular type of game, the law school game, and she just needed to learn the rules.Īfter hiring a coach, Ivy set benchmarks for herself, and learned how to “play the law school game better”, meaning she learned how to play it in a way that was useful for her. Others seemed to thrive in law school while she couldn’t seem to work hard enough to get the results she desired. On this episode of the podcast, Ivy shares how her flexible mindset, a hobby, and her skillset beyond her law degree led to a complete career transition into legal tech. Ivy Grey moved from IT to advertising to law, before landing at a legal tech company WordRake, a Microsoft Word add-in, which edits legal documents for clarity and brevity.
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