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...become a successful New York lawyer, an icon in international law, is usually enough of a career for one lifetime. Long hours, unexpected crises among clients and few vacations in such a high-stress profession frequently lead firms to award extended vacations to senior partners—intended as a brief reprieve, or at least a welcome change of pace...
When he was a student at Harvard, Begley didn’t pursue creative writing with full intensity because he felt he had nothing to say; after 45 years as a high-powered international lawyer, he has become an unusually prolific and acclaimed writer of fiction...
Begley says that he had not planned as a college student to become a lawyer. His father had hoped he would become a doctor—but when he realized that he didn’t enjoy hard science or medicine enough to pursue that path, he found himself without much of a career...
Androeu says that Begley’s career as a lawyer has made him “remarkably efficient” in his writing and revising...
...think it comes from being a lawyer; it’s the wonderful organizing paradigm of billable hours,” he says...