I am a lawyer barred in NY and SC, currently practicing in SC in my own office. My college degree is in Biochemistry and I took Math through Calc II.<p>During law school (2003-2006) I took up learning some HTML, CSS, and Javascript during my free time. I was able get myself up to building a decent static website at that time, but I am not a front end designer. After being in practice a few years I decided to go back to learning code, taking up PHP, MYSQL, and Javascript again, this time mostly jQuery, and lately dabbling in CodeIgniter and Laravel, emphasis on dabbling.<p>I eventually set up a website for SC attorneys for automated creation of court forms, which is currently a break even operation.<p>My law practice is mildly successful, but it has proven very difficult to keep the family budget going when legal fee income is so unpredictable. Law practice is a bit of a mismatch with my personality, as I do not have the aggression that some other litigators have, so while I do go to court occasionally, my practice is mostly transactional. Thankfully my wife has a good job that has kept us going quite well.<p>I want to try to take the next step here in the coding area and see if anybody would like to discuss a remote coding/developer relationship. I would shutter my law practice for such an opportunity. Admittedly I am still in the learning stage, but I learn quickly. Thanks to all.
Morning!<p>I am a programmer in Lexington. For more local gigs, I'd recommend checking out Tech After 5 if you're in one of the three major cities, or close enough. It is a casual bar meetup sponsored by larger businesses. It makes a great way to get local contacts in the IT industry. IT-ology is also a great resource in SC. They are a non-profit I volunteer with that focuses on pulling new talent into IT.<p>Remote work is hard to find even if you're pretty experienced. For a side project, I ended up starting up my own little business, but I started out looking for remote work. You could explore business backed open source projects, especially the smaller businesses and startups. Becoming a quality contributor for a program that you're passionate about tends to lead to recruitment offers.
Hey!<p>A friend and I are experienced full-stack web developers starting a company in the legal technology space. We'd be really interested in speaking with you, are you free sometime this week?