While many continue to gripe about the second class status of women at biglaw, other women lawyers have taken a different path entirely, not just starting their own practices but finding spare time to start several businesses in one case and embark on a masters running career in another. This article, Lawyers Have A Bent for Business, Paul Levy, Star Tribune (7/4/05) reports on Judith Samson and Jennifer Speas, Minneapolis criminal lawyers in private practice who’ve started a variety of businesses on the side, while Born to Run, Asbury Park Press, 7/3/05 describes small firm family law attorney Linda Piff who’s headed headed to the World Masters Athletics Championships as a sprinter. Seems that this kind of big determination fits better in small practice rather than big.











