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Bestselling author Carly Phillips started out as an attorney, but gratefully left it. “To say I hated it is an understatement. Did I like going to school? Yes. I passed the NY and CT bar exams the first try, unlike JFK Jr, who was sworn into the NY First Circuit along with me–with Jackie O in the back of the courtroom,” she writes at her blog. “Did I like the actual practice of law? No. The profession ate me up and spit me out.”