Picture a man confronting the abyss, not to escape the world, but to remember something the world made him forget.
Sir James Gray Robinson lived that image, the consummate professional who had it all. For three decades, he navigated the cutthroat world of high-stakes litigation with the kind of success that earns chamber rankings, courtroom victories, and peer admiration and envy.
Then, in a move that raised eyebrows and left unanswered questions behind, he walked away. It shocked colleagues and sent ripples through his family, where walking away from the law was almost unthinkable. But he didn’t disappear to a monastery or some windswept mountaintop. His intention was not to retreat from life, but to reorient with it.
Why would someone at the apex walk away? Why does someone, at the height of his success, risk leaving behind the lifestyle and cultural norms he once knew?