Lawyer Who Survived Hudson River Plane Landing Changes Careers
A South Carolina lawyer says his decision to change careers had nothing to do with the Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549.
Mike Nunn tells SCNow.com that surviving the water landing was a life-changing experience. But it didn’t spur his decision to give up private law practice to become a spokesman and in-house lawyer for the Florence County Sheriff’s office.
“We were incredibly fortunate in that incident, all 155 of us,” he told the publication. “Does it potentially change the way you look at life? Perhaps. But I do not attribute the plane crash to this decision.”
Nunn, who was a partner at Aiken Bridges Attorneys at Law, said he had been contemplating a career switch for a long time. At the law firm, he had defended police departments and sheriff’s offices and decided to get an insider’s perspective by becoming a reserve deputy for Florence County in 2006. He agreed to join the department full-time at the request of the sheriff.
“My wife and I had been questioning how much longer (I was going to) do this private practice. I love it. I had the best partners in the world. I had the best law firm anywhere, very successful,” he told SCNow.com. “But it’s difficult over the long term.”
Another lawyer who survived the Hudson River landing is also switching jobs, but the decision wasn’t his. Lawyer Frank Scudere was laid off from his job as a staff lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom less than three months after the emergency landing.
