by Rebekah Tilley
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tlanta Beat Owner, Chairman & General Manager, T. Fitz Johnson (UK Law ‘98) in front of the Atlanta Beat’s first ever sell-out crowd at KSU Soccer Stadium.
Law Outside the Box
Photo by Lou Raimondi.
Many law graduates today belong to a recently identified socioeconomic “creative class”of knowledgebased professionals that bring their specific blend of higher education and experience to create new approaches to challenges in the legal field, health care, business and finance, and education. While many creative class legal professionals approach their work from within the traditional structures of a legal career – private practice, public and governmental services – a number are choosing to use their legal education and experience in ways that are decidedly outside the box, and identify their training as the key tool in successfully and uniquely doing some very interesting careers.
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resh from attending the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany, the chairman and CEO of the Atlanta Beat of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) describes his legal career post-law school. “I practiced for about 10 minutes,” jokes T. Fitz Johnson (UK Law ’98). Shortly after
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University of Kentucky Law Notes
graduating from the UK College of Law, the Citadel alum and retired Army officer joined his family’s defense contracting company as chief counsel and vice president of human resources. A devoted father, Johnson also enjoyed coaching his daughters’ and son’s soccer teams from the time they were small and up through high school.