[nknight]

I guess my only direct source is that every time she's spoken of working as a paralegal, it's been in the past tense. e.g. her H-Online interview:

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Groklaw-The-blog-that-...

It would certainly have been impractical for long stretches of Groklaw's history for PJ to have a day job.

[Natsu]

Interesting, thanks.