By her third day in law school, Deborah Schneider was already thinking "“What have I gotten myself into?" While she ultimately graduated law school, Deborah quickly gravitated to a business position at the Internet book seller VarsityBooks.com and then a job at a legal technology provider.

After completing an intensive career development training course offered by Richard Bolles, author of the best-selling job-search book What Color Is Your Parachute, Deborah eventually ended up in a permanent position as Associate Director of Career Development at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Most recently, Deborah has published a book Should You Really Be A Lawyer? (now for sale in the "Books" category on JD Bliss and at Deborah's website). While a key goal of the book is to help law students decide if a legal career is right for them, Deborah observes that the book also holds great value for lawyers concerned about their own career options:

"Our book aims to help these lawyers look at their own career decision-making process, get beyond those mental traps that typically trigger career confusion, and choose jobs they’ll enjoy."

Larry likes to point out that he scores as an ESTJ on the Myers-Briggs personality test -- which means he is a results-oriented extrovert who likes to organize projects and get things done. This insight has helped Larry chart a career path that has brought him maximum satisfaction.

After graduating cum laude from Seton Hall University law school in 1981, Larry started out practicing municipal law in Madison, Wisconsin. However, he quickly returned to his journalistic roots when opportunity came knocking in the form of an offer to serve as editor of the ABA Journal. Another major step came in 1992, when Larry became Director of Communications for Sidley & Austin, and created the firm's first website.

Larry's exposure to the Internet and entrepreneurial disposition led him to launch the Law Marketing Listserv in 1996 - an online discussion group for legal marketing professionals. Over the years, Larry grew the Listserv into The Law Marketing Portal - the #1 online destination for legal marketers with such resources as a job board, online store, article library, blog, and email newsletter that goes out to over 4,000 subscribers twice a month.

Larry currently serves as the Regional Director for North America of the PM Forum, a global organization of 4,000 marketers in law, accounting and management consulting.

After graduating cum laude from the New York University School of Law in 1993, Joshua started work as a bankruptcy litigator at Kaye Scholer, a large law firm in New York City. However, he ultimately concluded that his personality was not well suited to the combative nature of litigation, and that he instead preferred a more collaborative environment. He ultimately ended up as a senior executive at an Internet dot-com where, drawing on organizational skills honed as a litigator, he managed a multi-million dollar technology project encompassing various web and e-commerce components.

After the dot-com folded - a casualty of the market crash - Joshua co-founded Envoy Messsaging, Inc. as a provider of website, email, blog and search engine optimization services to businesses. Envoy now services the Internet marketing needs of over 120 corporations, professional service firms, and nonprofit organizations. Through its eLawMarketing division, Envoy develops electronic marketing solutions tailored to the needs of individual attorneys and law firms, including DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Fenwick & West, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Loeb & Loeb, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, and Farella Braun + Martel.

In September 2004, Joshua launched JD Bliss as a resource for attorneys seeking greater career satisfaction and work life balance. The company's subscriber base has quickly grown to over 27,000 attorneys nationwide.