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When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

I've done a lot of deals, and I'm skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table.

I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

I'm a transactional lawyer, which involves a lot of negotiation. If nothing else, that's given me a good eye for human motivation and frequent case studies in peculiar psychological quirks. I think that's served me fairly well as a writer.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!