They say necessity is the mother of invention, so naturally a hung jury would lead a lawyer to think 'I need to open up a restaurant that serves pizza', right?  Seems reasonable to me.  It's moments like that and times like these that typically spark entrepreneurship.  Sometimes the ideas don't work out, but then again, sometimes you get ideas like California Pizza Kitchen. 

"Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield met in the '70s as federal prosecutors and eventually started up their own law practice.

But the two decided to shed their lawyerly past in 1985 after a "grueling trial" that ended in a hung jury, the Wall Street Journal reports in a Q&A profiling the duo's transition from practicing law to serving up pizzas.

The two used the capital from their law practice and set up a limited partnership with 22 family and friends to launch what is now California Pizza Kitchen, a publicly traded company with 250 restaurants in 33 states and nine countries."

For the full ABA Journal piece, click here.