Judi Lawrence Had to
Reinvent Her Life —
and It Worked
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Judith Lawrence in her office at Center City Notary
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J udith Lawrence — Judi to her friends, Judith to her clients
(until they become her friends) — knows that her mother
would hate this. Her father, too.

They wouldn’t have been able to stand the recklessness of it,
the trapeze-without-a-net act that their daughter embraced, and
with such enthusiasm. Lawrence — who said, “I don’t do age
for anything or anyone” — can only imagine the fit they would
have thrown about her later-in-life career change, the result of a
surprise layoff from a job she loved. But Lawrence can’t blame
them; they were “Depression people,” as she said.

In the meantime, the opportunity that Lawrence was given by
losing her job, which resulted in her owning a successful notary
business called Center City Notary, has been a dream.

“I knew, as soon as I started, that this was for me, that I had
never done anything so exciting or so challenging,” Lawrence
said. Those aren’t sentiments typically ascribed to the experience
of notarizing forms for pre-nuptial agreements, adoption and
making aliyah.

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