List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Outdoor activities
(2) Good food
(3) Local events
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Religion
(2) Politics
(3) Taxes
Best piece of advice you ever received?
You have to put in the hard work at some point during life—do it early.
If you had it to do all over again, what would you study now?
Political Science. I’m a nerd.
It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
Bacon-wrapped filet mignon and garlic mashed potatoes. Dairy Queen ice cream cake for dessert. I could live off of those.
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Stevie Wonder. He seems like he would have some interesting stories, and hopefully he would sing a few songs for me!
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Sports
(2) Outdoors
(3) Business
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Food
(2) Politics
(3) Religion
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Suits. I love Harvey Specter!
What’s the most ridiculous Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?.
Tasmanian Devil from Looney Toons.
What was your very first paying job?
Bag-boy at Lunds & Byerlys.
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) My kids
(2) University of Wisconsin athletics
(3) Current events—particularly as they relate to entrepreneurial issues
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics—I like politics, but am not inclined to have that type of discussion in this forum
(2) Religion—ditto above
(3) Reality television (except, perhaps, Top Chef)
Best piece of advice you ever received?
Find something you would do for free, and then find a way to make a living at it (Editorial note: I’m not sure that I would practice law for free, but it beats working for a living.)
What’s the most ridiculous Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?
As a kid, I wore the same costume almost every year—the result of poor planning by both me and my parents. The only costume I can remember wearing was a hobo costume, which usually consisted of my dad’s old clothes, a painted beard, and a stick with a handkerchief at the end of it.
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Abraham Lincoln
It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
My mom’s homemade spaghetti sauce
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Travel
(2) Food
(3) Movies & TV
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics
(2) Religion
(3) Sports
Best piece of advice you ever received?
"Nothing worth having comes easy."
If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
A wedding photographer business
It's your last meal...what's on the menu?
Pizza from Naples, Pizza Hut breadsticks, and S'mores (lots of them).
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
I would love to have dinner with Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson. What can I say? I love the Office.
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Intellectual Property
(2) Basketball
(3) Television
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) The weather
(2) Religion
(3) Politics
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Boston Legal
Favorite Movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
The Sound of Music
What was your major in college?
Urban Planning and Russian — I was going to design cities in Russia
If you were not a lawyer, had no capital, and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
A 24-hour hardware store that serves 10 varieties of soup
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Wisconsin sports
(2) Outdoors
(3) Travel
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics
(2) Religion
(3) Exotic foods
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Ed (about the bowling-alley lawyer)
What was your major in college?
Accounting
What was your very first paying job?
Rink monitor at open skate at the local ice arena
It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
A little bit of a lot of things: cheese pizza, the steak and those delicious rolls with cinnamon butter at the Texas Roadhouse, shrimp, and Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuits
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Wonky IP topics
(2) Technology and politics
(3) Advertising law - things you never knew you needed to know
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Environmental law
(2) Housing law and policy
(3) Social justice issues
Who is/was an important mentor to you?
My mom
Favorite movie that doesn't involve a lawyer?
The Pelican Brief (technically, she's a law student)
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you'd most like to have dinner?
Frank Sinatra
If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
A daycare
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Economics
(2) Technology
(3) Travel
Who is/was an important mentor to you?
Two important mentors in my life were my 12th grade teacher Ms. Bangs and my 1L legal writing Professor Douglas Godfrey. Ms. Bangs taught a course called “Theory of Knowledge”. Her class trained me, and she challenged me, to think analytically, to question the world around me, to ask questions, to make logical and coherent arguments, and to listen. Professor Godfrey’s writing instruction was the most useful class I took in law school – bar none. He was tough, but fair, and challenged his students to distill ideas down to the core, to write clearly, succinctly and with purpose.
Best piece of advice you ever received?
Always question the status quo.
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Law and Order (the original)
What’s the most ridiculous Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?
I once wore a giant shark costume.
What’s the first food booth you visit on a trip to the state fair?
Cheese curds. Every year. Without fail.
If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
Since high school I have always dreamed of opening a parking garage downtown that doubled as a car wash/repair shop. Admittedly, that would be difficult without access to capital, but I am confident I could swing it with investors. The idea sells itself….
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) IP
(2) Travel
(3) Fitness & Health
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Religion and Politics (I think these are mandatory answers)
(2) Fantasy Baseball
Best piece of advice you ever received?
Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Suits (I like to pretend I am Rachel)
It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
Something Thai. My husband and I make a mean drunken carrot noodle dish.
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
The Notorious RBG. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be? Travel Blogger. Pay me to go to fabulous places, take photographs, and write about it? Yes please.
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) International law
(2) Media (movies, television and video games)
(3) New technologies
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Taxes
(2) Retirement
(3) Cooking (because I'm terrible at it)
Favorite Movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. My dream is to travel all around New Zealand on a LOTR tour someday.
If you had it to do all over again, what would you study now?
I would’ve (attempted to) study astrophysics. I’m fascinated by space.
What’s the first food booth you visit on a trip to the state fair?
The Australian Battered Potatoes. It requires an entirely separate trip.
If you were not a lawyer, had no capital and had to start a business from scratch tomorrow to make ends meet, what would that business be?
A wolfdog sanctuary for abandoned, abused, and displaced wolfdogs..
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Three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point?
(1) Generally, books—maybe a movie here and there or even a current event
(2) What we all might learn from Indiana Jones (or other sources that entrepreneurs might not readily embrace)
(3) Enlightened self interest
Three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point?
(1) Celebrities and their public meltdowns
(2) Intricate details of arcane provisions of the tax code (I have partners for that!)
(3) How to make a humongous fortune (if I knew, I might already have done it)
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Rumpole of the Bailey (Masterpiece, PBS). Otherwise, I tend to avoid law-oriented shows. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Favorite movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
How the West Was Won—It may not be particularly accurate historically, but it captures the American impulse to create, to build, and to improve. Plus, it has an awesome score.
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt—it’s a toss-up. If those guys are busy that night, William the Conqueror. I’d have a drink with Jimmy Page.
It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
A reprieve?
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Food
(2) Art and/or art law
(3) Travel
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Sports
(2) Politics
(3) Religion
Favorite Movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
The Grand Budapest Hotel – I love everything by Wes Anderson, and the imagery in this film is delightful.
What’s the most ridiculous Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?
I love dreaming up creative costume ideas. I was a cupcake for Halloween a few years ago, complete with an elaborate Pottery Barn Teen costume with layers of felt ruffles and a strawberry headpiece. My husband went as Buddy the Elf, and we were on a sugar high all night (pun intended).
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Jimmy Fallon.
It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
Pici with truffles, an amazing hand-rolled pasta I discovered while traveling in Tuscany.
List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Music.
(2) Sports.
(3) Comic books. (Did I mention that I’m ten years old?)
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics.
(2) Religion.
(3) The Great Pumpkin
Where were you born?
Bellevue, Washington. My parents lived in Seattle at the time and they still live there, and I grew into adulthood in Seattle. I think they chose a Bellevue hospital across the lake from Seattle so that for formal documents and Q&As like this I would always start to write “Se”, cross it out and then reluctantly write “Bellevue”.
What’s the most ridiculous Halloween costume you’ve ever worn?
Alf. That furry 80s TV creature from the planet Melmac who lived with Willie et al., liked to chase cats, and otherwise get into mischief.
What was your major in college?
I worked too hard and decided to complete two majors. One in Government with a focus on American public policy, and the other in Native American Studies.
It’s your last meal…what’s on the menu?
Barbeque. It’s not uncommon for me to spend 8+ hours on the weekend smoking something on my Big Green Egg.
List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Traveling
(2) The Green Bay Packers
(3) Fitness & Health
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Anything related to farming or agriculture
(2) Anything related to cats
(3) Anything related to country music
Best piece of advice you ever received?
If you wait around for the "right time" to do something, you will wait your entire life and never do anything.
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
The Office. See Season Four, Episode 12, "The Deposition." I'm sure other lawyers make appearances throughout the seasons as well. I'm not a fan of shows that star a lawyer (call me crazy).
What was your very first paying job?
Sandwich Artist - Panera Bread Co.
It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
Thanksgiving dinner.
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Beyonce
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Musical theatre
(2) Animation
(3) Raising capital and/or children
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Country music
(2) The British royal family
(3) Celebrity marriages
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Modern Family, because it doesn’t really center around the fact that Mitchell is a lawyer
Favorite movie that doesn’t involve a lawyer?
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Gaston wasn’t a lawyer, although I’ve seen plenty of lawyers who act like that...)
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Walt Disney
It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
Chicken wings, Gino’s East pizza (with sausage—crumbles, not patty—mushrooms, and pesto), and chocolate mousse cake (from Carnegie Deli)
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Horses
(2) Trials and tribulations of being a small business owner
(3) Harry Potter
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Politics
(2) What to do with so much free time
(3) Cooking
Best piece of advice you ever received?
“Work smart, not hard.”
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
Boston Legal. I used to watch James Spader and then mimic his impassioned, occasionally ostentatious arguments and gestures in my Advocacy class courtroom simulations. I won the top grade out of 200 students for my brilliant acting that year. And then I wisely became a transactional lawyer.
What’s the first food booth you visit on a trip to the state fair?
Pizza on a Stick! And I go back at least three times!
If you could describe your career path in one word, what would it be?
Destiny
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List three topics you are most likely to blog about at some point.
(1) Trademarks
(2) Advertising
(3) Dogs
List three topics you are least likely to blog about at some point.
(1) The war in Afghanistan
(2) Insurance
(3) Sushi
Favorite TV show involving a lawyer?
LA Law—I was a newer attorney when the show started, and I appreciated that it wasn’t particularly realistic, at least with respect to MN Law. I didn’t watch it so much in the later years, but admit that I loved the episode where the nasty managing partner stepped into the elevator that wasn’t there. It still makes me smile. I am also a sucker for the old black and white Perry Mason episodes (not the later made-for-TV movies).
If you had it to do all over again, what would you study now?
Archeology or museum administration
Famous person (dead or alive) with whom you’d most like to have dinner?
Lee Harvey Oswald—I really want to know!
It’s your last meal...what’s on the menu?
Blutwurst and grit—an old German recipe that died with my aunt (it’s not as gross as it sounds)
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