Deborah Arron, JD, is a career and small-firm management consultant who speaks nationally on career issues for professionals. Her published works include:

• What Can You Do with a Law Degree? A Lawyer's Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside & Around the Law (4th ed. 1999)
• The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering (4th ed. 1999)
• Running from the Law (2nd ed. 1991)
• Changing Jobs: The ABA Handbook for Lawyers for the New Millennium (Arron wrote the chapter on alternative legal careers in the last two editions).

Ms. Arron's career work with professionals has been cited in The Occupational Outlook Quarterly and the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. She is also a frequent media source on career issues, and is quoted in Time, Newsweek, Money, Fortune, and Working Woman magazines, as well as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Investor's Business Daily, and USA Today.

Ms. Arron obtained her BA degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Washington. She earned her JD from UCLA Law School, and was a member of the UCLA Law Review. In the years that followed, she accepted a coveted associate position in a large Seattle firm, and later founded and was managing partner of a successful civil litigation law firm. After a life-changing sabbatical, which began in 1985, she became an author, national public speaker, and career consultant.

Currently, Ms. Arron belongs to the Washington State Bar Association, the California Bar, the Career Planning and Adult Development Network, and the National Speakers Association.