Law Practice
Oct. 21, 2010
My Second Act as a Writer
Life as a writer is markedly different from life as a lawyer. By Daniel A. Olivas of the California Department of Justice.
Ten years ago, at the age of 41, I did something that forever changed the trajectory of my personal life.
No, I did not leave my brilliant, beautiful wife. Nor did I abandon my legal career with the California Department of Justice.
Ten years ago, I published my first book, "The Courtship of Maria Rivera Peña," a novella loosely based on my paternal grandparents' migration from M...
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