Cupcakes

As it turns out, working at a cupcake truck can be a lucrative career. In the past, we've profiled several successful lawyers with mobile cupcakeries. And Temple Law School has apparently caught on to the fact that a lawyer can rake in the dough as a baker, so they've posted an exciting job opportunity on their Career Planning Manager. Let's see what's cooking....

* Some people regret going to law school; Rachel Kramer Bussel regrets not finishing. But she wound up at the same delicious destination as so many JDs, namely, cupcakes. [The Gloss and Cupcakes Take the Cake] * Speaking of law school, Professor Dan Filler asks: Despite all the gloom and doom, is now actually an […]

Today is a sad day for businesses established by lawyer-entrepreneurs. First we learned that David J. Stern, the South Texas Law grad who went on to become “Florida’s Foreclosure King,” will be relinquishing his crown and closing his once-thriving practice. And now we hear that Lev Ekster, the New York Law School alum who founded […]

Apologies for this very belated coverage of the season finale of The Apprentice, which aired last week. Alas, no member of Team ATL — not even Marin, our resident reality TV addict — actually watched the show. The final episode was a bit like the proverbial tree falling in the forest without anyone around to […]

A few weeks ago we wrote about Kate Carrara, who left the law to launch Buttercream, a “mobile cupcake shop” — i.e., a cupcake truck — in Philadelphia. As we mentioned in our post, a surprising number of attorneys have launched cake-baking businesses. One of the most famous and successful, whom we forgot to mention […]

Meet Kate Carrara. Like a surprising number of other attorneys — e.g., Lev Ekster and Mia Bauer, of New York Law School, and Sam Whitfield, of GW Law — Carrara left the law to start a cupcake business. Alas, it appears that Carrara, a 35-year-old graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law, […]

I have come to the conclusion that most Americans really enjoy three things: Freedom Earning money, and Buying food out of a truck. Think about it. Remember as a kid when you would hear the music from your local ice cream truck making its way down your street? Remember running towards it as if your […]

Last week, we brought you the story of an intrepid New York Law School graduate who started his own business. Think cupcakes on wheels. Today, the proprietor of Cupcake Stop, Lev Ekster, stopped by our office with his delicious wares. Yumyumyumyumyum. Ed. note: For the record, I really hate donuts. I don’t even particularly like […]

When students at New York Law School can’t find work, sometimes they resort to tearing the clothes off of 1Ls. So we applaud Lev Ekster, an NYLS alumnus, for his non-violent approach to the economic crisis: Recent law school grad Lev Ekster is going from court to cupcakes. When the New York Law School student […]