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I Skipped Biglaw And Went Right To Startups: A Conversation With Web Summit's Maeve Lavelle

Would you go directly from law school to a startup?

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I made the decision early on when I started writing at ATL to make my email address available. I wanted to know whether or not my posts were resonating — especially any time I was giving advice. Giving advice is a risky business — what if your advice doesn’t resonate? Or, worse, what if you’re wrong? I try to stick to things I know, but the dirty truth is that no one knows anything about anything. So, I thought it was pretty cool when Maeve Lavelle, a law student in Ireland, emailed me to let me know she had read my advice on how to pitch your legal services to startups and found it really helpful. She had some follow up questions and we emailed back and forth for a bit.  But I was blown away when she hit me up a few months later to let me know that she had decided to skip Biglaw and go directly to work with startups, and she had landed a position at Web Summit, one of the premiere tech conferences hosted each year in Ireland (they have several other events as well).

Since starting my own company and writing here on ATL, I often get asked by law students and practicing lawyers how they can make the move to startups. The pressures can be difficult: family, law school debt, transferable skills etc. So I thought it would be fun to talk to Maeve about how and why she made the move.  Perhaps her experience will make the lateral move from law to startups easier for others.

Zach Abramowitz is a former Biglaw associate and currently CEO and co-founder of ReplyAll. You can follow Zach on Twitter (@zachabramowitz) or reach him by email at zach@replyall.me.

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