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

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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