VIDEO: Lenore Rice Leaves Law to Sell Pots

The pivotal moment for Lenore Rice, who had been a lawyer for nine years, between the justice department as a litigator for four years, and the rest at Sherman and Sterling,was when she decided to become a stay at home mom – a “very difficult decision” she says, in explaining to Bloomberg Law’s Spencer Mazyck how she transitioned to importing Terra Cotta pots.

Having some distance from the law, not sure when she would come back, she had the freedom to “just fall in love with these pots” during a vacation in Italy. Seibert & Rice became the lasting result, a business that imports terracotta planters into the States, Canada, and the Caribbean. As her website says: “Our long standing relationship with the oldest workshops in Impruneta insure that we will always have the best products that come out of this famous Tuscan town.”

Perhaps to make such a dynamic career move only takes a little distance from the overbearing demands of the legal profession: perhaps some time as a stay-at-home mother, or some necessary vacation with an unexpected illness, can show you the light. You could deal in pots, after all, follow your passion, follow your bliss, and get out of the quibbling business. Or at least you can daydream a little about such possibilities – fantasies are free.