Lisa Rosen leaves litigation to work at an environmental non-profit organization

The Lawyer's Escape Pod

Lisa Rosen is the Chief Operating Officer at SustainCERT. After starting her career in litigation, Lisa followed her interest in environmental issues to an in-house legal position at a non-profit and ultimately transitioned into an operations role there. Lisa’s story shows how your legal experience is seen as valuable for a non-legal position and that by taking that first step, you put yourself on the path for new, more interesting opportunities to present themselves.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Lisa felt that the conflicts of interest inherent in the billable hour system was misaligned with her values and integrity
• Lisa followed her interest in environmental issues into carbon credit work
• Lisa found work that was intellectually challenging, but wasn’t technically practicing law
• Eventually, her position evolved into a general counsel role
• Lisa raised her hand when the Chief Operating Officer role opened up and transitioned to that
• The importance of resourcefulness
• Failure is part of the path to your goal
• Lisa has come to realize that what she enjoys is operating a company

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