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“I knew, as soon as I started,
that this was for me, that I had
never done anything so exciting
or so challenging.”
JUDITH LAWRENCE
“She would always go the extra mile,” Mitchell recalls.

On a beautiful May day, Lawrence was let go from her job
at Montgomery McCracken. It was a total shock, especially for
someone with such a stable employment history. The summer
that followed was a dark, miserable time.

Still emerging from the fog, Lawrence called a notary for a
personal matter, whom she paid $100. Lawrence watched $100
walk out the door. Why couldn’t she do that? She’d done it for
the law firms she’d worked at; why couldn’t she do that again,
but on her own?
She drew up a business card that day. Two weeks later, she
made $150 for a mortgage signing. After a brief interregnum
running a small firm called NotaryService100, a friend told
Lawrence she should talk a man who owned an outfit called
Center City Notary.

When Lawrence arrived that day, Center City Notary saw that
records were scattered, and little had been digitized, probably
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