Above the Law wrote about lawyers who qualified for this year's trials (below), but no one was anywhere near the elite group (Jackson Graziano seems tops at 63rd). Higginson was very successful as a steeple chaser while in Law School though
Sarah David
Ashley Higginson
Caroline Veltri
Jessa Victor
Veronica Jackson Graziano
lawschool wrote:
The dude who cheated on all those ultra records and wrote a book about how full of himself he is practices as a low-level attorney.
You mean "extreme athlete" and CIA applicant Dane Rauschenberg? While he graduated law school, I don't think he works as an attorney. Don't even think he's passed any state's bar exam (he doesn't appear in the bar directories of Pennsylvania, Texas, or Utah. Maybe he passed Virginia's bar exam and has chosen to opt-out of their public directory).
A lawyer or British equivalent (solicitor) once held the WR for both the 800m and mile.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/sports/othersports/02wooderson.html
How about Ken Popejoy, a lawyer here in Illinois from 1977-97, now a circuit Court judge? Sub 4:00 miler in college, ran masters and set national masters records, I believe.
.Trump2020OP-the real one....... wrote:
I believe LRC's Smoove is an attorney. He runs fast too.
T.M.A.D.D.D.H.A.S.F.N.E.
A.G.I.A.N.
he has questionable performances.
No love for Danny Cabral?
He is getting a joint JD/MBA degree currently at UConn.
Precious Roy wrote:
Best one I ever saw was Kelly Jaske. Brad Hudson coached her to a second place finish at the Houston Half in 2009. She beat Desi in that race. Kelly was a Harvard Law grad and never ran in school. Only started running after college. Brilliant attorney too. Harvard Law review and clerked for the Fourth Circuit. I believe she practices in Portland now. Running career was relatively short, but impressive.
Mentioning Harvard never tells the whole story. Many really bright people don't get in because the space in limited, their parents aren't $$$$$ donors, and they didn't know anyone. Some don't belong there, but are. See the reasons above.
edumacation rulez wrote:
Smoove wrote:
Like with everything in life, running successfully while practicing law full-time is about how much of a priority you make it.
For most of the last 20 years; I practiced at one of the larger firms in my medium size market, and for the majority of the last five or six years I trained fairly consistently for marathons. While I am not an elite runner, I’ve had good success as a masters athlete at good races. I also have three kids.
I was able to attain whatever success I have attained as a runner as a result of me basically prioritizing three things in my life above all others: spending time with my family, practicing law, and running.
That means that I lost a lot of times out with buddies at bars and watching sporting events and things like that as a result.
It also meant that I had to be really flexible in scheduling runs. Sometimes, that meant going for runs very early in the morning (rarely); sometimes that meant going for runs very late at night (very frequently); sometimes it meant sneaking out in the middle of the day when I had a dead spot in my schedule even though it was blazingly hot (frequently); sometimes it meant using running as a way to commute back from one of my kids sporting events or from dropping off my car at the car dealership or something like that.
In short, it is pretty much like being a dedicated runner while doing any other profession that requires full-time commitment. The reason why more professionals don’t run as competitively as they did when you were younger is that they are simply unwilling to prioritize it. That is not a criticism of them, it’s just a statement of relative priorities.In fact, I prioritized running pretty far down the list for the bulk of my early professional career, and came back to it as a masters runner because that have me. Ew goals to accomplish since I was never going to meet my college times as an open athlete.
translation: I've abandoned my kids to train. And left my spouse to do most of the heavy lifting
I don't think you comprehend too well. Reread his post, he did no such thing. I'd guess you are jealous of his success as a Master's Runner.
I was OK about a decade ago (10 mile times in the mid 50s, marathon in high 230s, etc). I am no longer a lawyer though.
Maybe those two things are related?
Annie Bersagel
Linda Sommers
1600 wrote:
edumacation rulez wrote:
translation: I've abandoned my kids to train. And left my spouse to do most of the heavy lifting
I don't think you comprehend too well. Reread his post, he did no such thing. I'd guess you are jealous of his success as a Master's Runner.
I do. He's lying. I can't remember if he's on his second or third wife. I'm not jealous of a bald lawyer who abandons his kids. Also, I'd rather he from his wife.
I'm a lawyer and a sub-elite runner (marathon time 2:45, female). I also have three young kids. It's possible but you do have to get creative and put yourself first. I wake early to do my strength and prehab (don't usually run early because my kids could wake up any time and i need to be there when they do wake up). I run to and from work and can often sneak out at lunch hour too. Sunday long run means early mornings and leaving my partner to get up with kids which makes me feel guilty. It's doable, it just squeezes out room for other things, as Smoove said.
Lanni Marchant does not practice law currently and Ashley Higginson became a lawyer after retiring as an elite/pro. She just ran the marathon trials so still sub-elite but not elite.
Dan Schlesinger.
Harvard law.
Didn't practice law much. He later became an full time artist.
3rd in NY 1982, 8th in Boston 1983, while in law school.
law offices of bekele and bekele wrote:
There have been a surprising number of fun anecdotes over the years about collegiate and post-collegiate competitive runners in med school or working in the medical field, but I can't think of any lawyers or legal students logging miles and running competitive race performances. Is this because law is such a time-consuming profession? Because schools of law don't offer scholarships based on athletic performances? Can anyone come up with a sub-elite distance running lawyer or two?
Thing is elite running and being a lawyer cancel each other out in terms of douchebaggery, so that’s why you can’t think of any.
PattiSue Plummer.
2x Olympian
Jesse Owens Award
Former American Record holder for 5th Ave Mile
Stanford U alumni, Stanford Law alumni, worked at a law firm while making her 2nd Olympic team (for 1st team was still in Law school).
Gabe Jennings, JD, UO.
1600 wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:
Best one I ever saw was Kelly Jaske. Brad Hudson coached her to a second place finish at the Houston Half in 2009. She beat Desi in that race. Kelly was a Harvard Law grad and never ran in school. Only started running after college. Brilliant attorney too. Harvard Law review and clerked for the Fourth Circuit. I believe she practices in Portland now. Running career was relatively short, but impressive.
Mentioning Harvard never tells the whole story. Many really bright people don't get in because the space in limited, their parents aren't $$$$$ donors, and they didn't know anyone. Some don't belong there, but are. See the reasons above.
True for undergrad.
Harvard Law admissions are nowhere near as difficult as Harvard undergrad. That's why people questioned Obama's Columbia records and not his law school ones.
Julie Brown, a very accomplished runner from the late 70's and early 80's, is a practicing attorney here in So Cal.
I spend a semester auditing classes at Harvard on a foreign exchange in the 1980s. One class was at the Law School. Firms threw great parties recruiting, which I got to crash. One of them involved a lot of Bourbon and Oysters, and a pitch along the lines of "you can earn $120k in NYC with no life, but come to <somewhere south, can't remember, maybe Quenton Cassidy territory> and you can earn $80k starting, live like a king and keep all your hobbies". To Brits aiming for 30k tops, sounded like the promised land.
Don't know if it's true, but the law does not have to be a rat race.