A Dallas lawyer decided to shelve her law practice for six weeks. She stopped trying cases and started treating cases of COVID-19. DALLAS - A Dallas lawyer decided to shelve her law practice for six weeks.
She stopped trying cases and started treating cases of COVID-19. Six weeks ago, Colleen Carboy put her Dallas law practice on hold to practice what she was first licensed as 25 years ago: a registered nurse.
Switching the business suits for PPE, Carboy is answering the call for help with the COVID-19 response in New Jersey. “We were just so overwhelmed with the quantity of patients and how sick they were,” she said. “We were in makeshift units.