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Law Practice,
Appellate Practice

Oct. 26, 2020

What a long, strange trip it’s been

Lessons from an unorthodox career

Sarah Hofstadter

Of Counsel
California Appellate Law Group LLP

96 Jessie Street
San Francisco , California 94105

Phone: (415) 649-6700

Email: sarah@calapplaw.com

Stanford Univ Law School

Sarah Hofstadter is of counsel with the California Appellate Law Group LLP, an appellate boutique based in San Francisco. She spent more than a dozen years as a research and staff attorney for jurists on the California Courts of Appeal and the 9th Circuit. Find out more about Sarah and the California Appellate Law Group LLP at www.calapplaw.com

What a long, strange trip it’s been
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I plan to retire at the end of this calendar year, and this will be my last column as an of counsel at the California Appellate Law Group. Rather than expounding on a particular recent case or a notable point of law, I decided to use this opportunity to share some lessons I have learned over the course of my haphazard 42-year legal career.

I started out more or less normally: judicial clerkships at the 9th Circuit and a federal distr...

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