Leaving Law - and Becoming an Entrepreneur

www.nichecreativity.com has just run a piece on lawyers who become entrepreneurs, abandoning their careers to pursue their dream of starting up a new business to take on Richard Branson or Jamie Oliver.

Top of their list of resources is the 2009 Queen's Counsel book 101 Ways to Leave the Law, which they describe as "Cartoons that make you laugh out loud".

101 Ways to Leave the Law offers important and very practical advice on how to leave the profession (eg "Tell the client what you really think of his case") but is a bit short on what to do afterwards.

Luckily, nichecreativity.com has the answer. You can become a cake-baker, a jewellery designer, or - best of all - a psychic. Which sounds like a very useful skill for a litigator.

Just don't become a cartoonist - that way lies misery and ruin.