Erin Conlon: Biglaw Discovery Counsel to Executive & Life Coach

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Episode 027 of The Former Lawyer Podcast, Sarah talks with Erin Conlon. Erin graduated from law school and landed her dream job with a plaintiff-side class action firm, only to lose her job as a result of the recession in the late 2000s. She worked on a political campaign, started performing comedy, and ultimately landed in biglaw doing electronic discovery work. She spent almost a decade as Discovery Counsel before making the leap to life and executive coaching. Erin describes herself as a warrior for possibility.</span></p> <p><strong>In this conversation, Erin shares about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being told as a kid that she should become a lawyer and just sort of ending up on that path;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Getting admitted to a highly ranked school and following the path of least resistance there;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How generational expectations regarding children’s career success drove her decision-making (and drives many of us);</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why she disagrees with the idea that “you can do anything with a law degree;”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she got started in comedy;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she dealt with the disappointment of ending up in electronic discovery after losing her litigation job as a result of the recession;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why she thinks it was a mistake to keep trying to get back to the kind of lawyer job that she thought she wanted;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The moment when she realized she needed to leave the law;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Struggling with her identity as