​Casey Berman (University of California, Hastings College of the Law ’99) is the founder of Leave Law Behind, a career coaching program to help attorneys transition out of the law and land “non-law”, alternative careers.

Leave Law Behind grew out of the reality that not every lawyer should continue to practice law … and that an attorney’s skill set can be applied to other industries to add value. Leave Law Behind helps attorneys who want to leave the law to showcase how their “legal” skills are actually transferable to alternative, non-law job in which they can add value and create a new life for themselves.

Casey Berman graduated University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1999 and after five years of software licensing and transactional work, he left law behind to create a number of different enterprises.

The Hastings career services office asked him to speak about his professional experience in branching out from the law in July 2009 during its summer speaking series. After speaking to a packed room of lawyers and law students, Casey hatched another business idea – Leave Law Behind.

Since then, from his home base in San Francisco, He's been on a mission to help other unhappy, unfulfilled attorneys create their own alternative, dream careers out of the law like he has. He's helped hundreds of people through their course, LEAVE LAW BEHIND.

Adam practiced law for 21 years in Florida until he realized that he had found the law profession quite overwhelming. 

Adam practiced real estate law, real estate litigation, family law, guardianships, business litigation, business law, and commercial real estate, commercial real estate closings. He represented lenders and banks in their residential and commercial closings, contract law, wills, trusts and probate.

For many year he worked in a job that wasn't fulfilling until he decided to start focusing on what he loves doing, and the world opened up!

Despite the nice paycheck, Adam had done it all and was bored working in the law! He began to have some amazing success and decided to listen to his intuition and teach others full time through online videos and classes.

He is what some would call a “student of life,” since he was always asking questions about life, business, and the law on an everyday basis. As a result, he read thousands of books (usually 3 to 5 a week), went to any seminar he had time for and took a bunch of online classes.

The key was not just studying a bunch of stuff, but IMPLEMENTING those strategies into his life. He's part of the LLB team to share with you all he's learned and how you can use it to move toward your ideal life in every way.