Nick 'Ultimate Fighting Lawyer' Thompson featured in abovethelaw.com:

Thompson currently fights in the Japanese Sengoku league, often in front of 50,000 person crowds in Tokyo. With 4-6 fights per year at $20,000 to $80,000 per fight (depending on whether he wins or loses), he's been faring better than he would have in first year Biglaw.

But that law degree was not for naught. He is being courted by Henson & Efron, a Minneapolis law firm with a burgeoning sports entertainment practice. If he takes the job, Thompson wants to work part-time, representing ultimate fighters and other athletes in contract negotiations and promotions. He still needs time for matches, not to mention six hours daily at the gym six days a week.

There is a lawyer-athlete precedent at the University of Minnesota. Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Alan Page attended the law school full-time in the 1970s while playing professional football for the Vikings. After retiring from football in 1981, Page went on to become Minnesota's assistant attorney general, and is now an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Law and ultimate fighting are not so different, says Thompson. "In both, you're looking for weakness in your opponent. One's physical, and the other's mental."