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| | | And when I say that, I don’t mean I regret coming or that I do not want to continue, but more so thinking about the future of my community, my own future, and all the “collateral damage” that may come with the career choices I make. In Law and Contemporary Society,, we are always grappling with what kind of attorney we want to be and whether following some kind of “standard” is even beneficial to us. But yet what does that standard even look like for me? Very few people like me make it to places like these and it’s almost like we’ve fought for our lives to do so. And that’s another complication in my process. | |
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I don't understand this statement. Criminal defense practice pays depending on the social class of defendants the practice represents. Wealthy people and middle class people pay what they can afford to stay out of jail. Salaried lawyers who represent indigent defendants on public budgets aren't well paid, but there are many defense lawyers who make a fine living from, among other clients, indigent CJA defendants appointed in and paid by the federal courts.
I would walk out of this place with debt and without a solution that would vastly impact that. Choosing a path that was not my planned one gives me the opportunity to take care of those I love in a different way. I would be able to provide and support. This seems like a great life, but it almost feels selfish. | >
> | I find myself thinking and a sense of guilt always gets triggered. Will future me be upset that I followed a path that allowed me to live a life I would like to live? Or does the guilt of “letting home down” never go away? Ideally, I know I would want to be in a place of financial security because I know what insecurity is. Which means having to balance accessibility to clients and financial circumstances to avoid walking out of this place with debt and without a solution that would vastly impact that. Choosing a path that was not my planned one gives me the opportunity to take care of those I love in a different way. I would be able to provide and support. This seems like a great life, but it almost feels selfish. | | |
On the other hand, it almost feels like a moral obligation. All those experiences that I went through just to put them on the back burner? Although I know that by myself I will not be able to dismantle over policing and the criminalization of people of color, I have always had faith in putting my small contribution into the bowl. It’s an obligation to my community to assure that they receive the ardent advocacy they receive after being failed time after time. Because I truly believe that the best advocates are those who actually understand us.
As my time progresses in law school, it feels like I need to make a decision fast. Because truthfully two years fly. But realistically, can a decision like this really be made on a whim? Do I let myself finally choose something new that I am intrigued by and ignore the selfish feeling or do I choose what I already had planned and risk insecurity? One thing is for certain, I’m at a place where my identity as a future attorney is constantly molding and changing. All I could hope for is that somehow, some way I still become an attorney with integrity that finds a way to impact her community. Whether it be here or there, I just want to fulfill that need to help, but also to finally choose myself for once. | |
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| | | And when I say that, I don’t mean I regret coming or that I do not want to continue, but more so thinking about the future of my community, my own future, and all the “collateral damage” that may come with the career choices I make. In Law and Contemporary Society,, we are always grappling with what kind of attorney we want to be and whether following some kind of “standard” is even beneficial to us. But yet what does that standard even look like for me? Very few people like me make it to places like these and it’s almost like we’ve fought for our lives to do so. And that’s another complication in my process. | |
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> | I find myself thinking and a sense of guilt always gets triggered. Will future me be upset that I followed a path that allowed me to live a life I would like to live? Or does the guilt of “letting home down” never go away? Ideally, I know I would want to be in a place of financial security because I know what insecurity is. And if we are honest criminal defense doesn’t pay too well.
I don't understand this statement. Criminal defense practice pays depending on the social class of defendants the practice represents. Wealthy people and middle class people pay what they can afford to stay out of jail. Salaried lawyers who represent indigent defendants on public budgets aren't well paid, but there are many defense lawyers who make a fine living from, among other clients, indigent CJA defendants appointed in and paid by the federal courts.
I would walk out of this place with debt and without a solution that would vastly impact that. Choosing a path that was not my planned one gives me the opportunity to take care of those I love in a different way. I would be able to provide and support. This seems like a great life, but it almost feels selfish. | | |
On the other hand, it almost feels like a moral obligation. All those experiences that I went through just to put them on the back burner? Although I know that by myself I will not be able to dismantle over policing and the criminalization of people of color, I have always had faith in putting my small contribution into the bowl. It’s an obligation to my community to assure that they receive the ardent advocacy they receive after being failed time after time. Because I truly believe that the best advocates are those who actually understand us.
As my time progresses in law school, it feels like I need to make a decision fast. Because truthfully two years fly. But realistically, can a decision like this really be made on a whim? Do I let myself finally choose something new that I am intrigued by and ignore the selfish feeling or do I choose what I already had planned and risk insecurity? One thing is for certain, I’m at a place where my identity as a future attorney is constantly molding and changing. All I could hope for is that somehow, some way I still become an attorney with integrity that finds a way to impact her community. Whether it be here or there, I just want to fulfill that need to help, but also to finally choose myself for once. | |
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So perhaps you want to plan a practice in which by controlling whom you represent you are also able both to serve communities with which you identify and also to meet the material and intellectual as well as the social and political needs of your practice. Criminal defense is an area in which building one's own practice is not only possible but common. Many students who have worked with me in "Planning Your Practice" planned practices involving criminal defense. Instead of thinking of this as a conflict to be determined by job choice, why not think of the balance among interests and needs as the arena in which a lawyer's own decisions about her practice are shaped?
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One of the first questions you are asked when you are young is “what do you want to be when you grow up?” And at that age, the sky's the limit. I remember hearing things like actresses, astronauts, and pro soccer players. And in all honesty, all of that seemed super fun and interesting for us. But yet that was never really my thing. Sometimes I thought maybe I could be a teacher or even the president. These careers just never seemed fulfilling to me. So I kept searching until it finally clicked. | >
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For as long as I could remember, that said click led me to wanting to be an attorney. And that is what I have wanted to be ever since. It is intriguing to me that somehow by the age of eight years old, I knew exactly what to say when asked “what do you want to be when you grow up?” I never really struggled with the jumping from career to career although I did think of them. I just could not see myself doing anything else. But truly what did I know at that age? Once I set my mind on it and shared it with others I got a lot of “you have the attitude for it” or the typical “well you are good at arguing.”
At first, wanting to be a lawyer was just a career choice, but that was for the younger and more innocent version of myself. That changed fast. As I started to grow, I began to understand the role of the criminal system in communities like mine. We were always being surveilled by the sheriffs that stayed on our campuses. As well as being searched randomly by these deputies and sometimes even their K-9s. It was like a part of my life was always being exposed to officers. This was only the tip of the iceberg. The older we got the more violent things got. A lot of my loved ones were affected by the system directly and these searches became arrests.Then officers turned into courtrooms.
It was almost as if I had known what life was going to be like for me. And the more I lived these experiences the more I realized that younger me had a purpose in choosing to be an attorney. Everything I went through just reinforced my idea of wanting to be a criminal defense attorney. It was a way that I knew could help protect communities like mine whether it was through ardent defense or simply making the legal system accessible to those who did not understand it. Because aside from being criminalized my community was mainly composed of low-income households who oftentimes were Spanish speakers only. The process of hiring a private attorney was too costly or simply understanding legal jargon can be too difficult. And I have always wanted to be that bridge. | >
> | One of the first questions you’re asked when you’re young is “what do you want to be when you grow up?” And at that age, the sky's the limit. A lot of kids say things like astronauts, athletes, and even the president. And in all honesty, it all seems so “cool” and interesting too. There was never a game plan though. We just had dreams. But my dream job did not came as fast as others. It actually took a few years into elementary school. | | | | |
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Yet I know this experience probably isn’t unique to me. I often think about how many of us have chosen our career paths from past experiences, traumas, etc. Many of the people who I have met that are pursuing “higher education,” have their reasons for pursuing their career. For example, many of the people I have met that are going to medical school, they chose this path because of lack of resources in their community or even their own experience with the inaccessibility of that specific system. Some of the people that I know that want to do education are doing it because they went into low-income education systems and saw how it impacted them. But there is always a very visible connection.
Somehow, some way our career paths have been almost “chosen” for us. We have allowed for personal experiences or community based issues to sway our decisions for the rest of our lives. And we somehow carry that weight. Well at least I know I do. However, I would like to understand what sways those people who do not have these experiences. I would like to understand how they came about choosing their career paths. And if they follow through with them. | | | | |
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The issue with allowing my lived experiences to sway me and what may be a trend is this idea of “tunnel vision.” As soon as I decided what I wanted to do, I never took my foot from the pedal. Everything I did ranging from internships to jobs were catered to that. However, a very hard blow I took was actually coming to law school. This was one of my first experiences really understanding what I could do with a law degree that did not require me to relive my past trauma or even find other ways to impact communities like mine. And the more I grapple with different material, the more I contemplate my why. | >
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> | At first, wanting to be a lawyer was just a decision made by my younger self who just wanted to choose something. Then reality hit. As I started to grow, I began to understand the role of the criminal system in communities like mine. We were always being surveilled by the sheriffs and their K-9s. They conducted searches, arrested on campus, and just harassed us. Younger me knew at that moment. Being a criminal defense attorney was a way that I knew could help protect communities like mine whether it was through ardent defense or simply making the legal system accessible to those who did not understand it. Because I knew how hard it was to understand it or even to seek help. There are a million barriers between you and your justice.
Yet I know this experience probably isn’t unique to me. I often think about how many of us have chosen our career paths from past experiences, traumas, etc. Many of the people who I have met that are pursuing “higher education,” have their reasons for pursuing their career. Somehow, our career paths have been “chosen” for us. We have allowed for personal experiences or community based issues to sway our decisions for the rest of our lives. And we somehow carry that weight. | | | | |
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And when I say that, I don’t mean I regret coming or that I do not want to continue, but more so thinking about the kind of attorney I want to be. In Law and Contemporary Society we are always grappling with what kind of attorney we want to be and whether following some kind of “standard” is even beneficial to us. I find myself thinking about this a lot, but a sense of guilt always gets triggered. Contemplating a different kind of law because it could give me the life I want to live or just because it seems intriguing, makes me feel like I am abandoning my community. | >
> | The issue with allowing my lived experiences to sway me was the very “hard blow” I took once I actually came to law school. This was the first time I actually understood the infinite possibilities that come with a law degree. That maybe for the first time I didn’t have to keep reliving my traumas to pursue a career. So now the question is what kind of attorney do I actually want to be? Every day since I have set foot on this campus I have learned something new whether it be in immigration advocacy or in white collar crime. It is literally limitless. But nobody prepared me for the identity crisis I would be going through at 25. | | | | |
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So I often wonder if this feeling of guilt is a collective one or if this specific feeling is unique to me unlike the first one. And for those that did not let life form their career paths, how is it that they manage or figure out what they want? My curiosity lies within how people choose what they want to do with their lives because what seemed to me in the past as very black and white, has now added the color gray to the picture. | >
> | And when I say that, I don’t mean I regret coming or that I do not want to continue, but more so thinking about the future of my community, my own future, and all the “collateral damage” that may come with the career choices I make. In Law and Contemporary Society,, we are always grappling with what kind of attorney we want to be and whether following some kind of “standard” is even beneficial to us. But yet what does that standard even look like for me? Very few people like me make it to places like these and it’s almost like we’ve fought for our lives to do so. And that’s another complication in my process. | | | | |
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> | I find myself thinking and a sense of guilt always gets triggered. Will future me be upset that I followed a path that allowed me to live a life I would like to live? Or does the guilt of “letting home down” never go away? Ideally, I know I would want to be in a place of financial security because I know what insecurity is. And if we are honest criminal defense doesn’t pay too well. I would walk out of this place with debt and without a solution that would vastly impact that. Choosing a path that was not my planned one gives me the opportunity to take care of those I love in a different way. I would be able to provide and support. This seems like a great life, but it almost feels selfish. | | | | |
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> | On the other hand, it almost feels like a moral obligation. All those experiences that I went through just to put them on the back burner? Although I know that by myself I will not be able to dismantle over policing and the criminalization of people of color, I have always had faith in putting my small contribution into the bowl. It’s an obligation to my community to assure that they receive the ardent advocacy they receive after being failed time after time. Because I truly believe that the best advocates are those who actually understand us.
As my time progresses in law school, it feels like I need to make a decision fast. Because truthfully two years fly. But realistically, can a decision like this really be made on a whim? Do I let myself finally choose something new that I am intrigued by and ignore the selfish feeling or do I choose what I already had planned and risk insecurity? One thing is for certain, I’m at a place where my identity as a future attorney is constantly molding and changing. All I could hope for is that somehow, some way I still become an attorney with integrity that finds a way to impact her community. Whether it be here or there, I just want to fulfill that need to help, but also to finally choose myself for once. | | | | |
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I'm sure that those aren't the right 125 words. You would want to use more, and different ones, no doubt. But even if the introduction were twice as long as my cartoon, that would still leave three quarters of the space to use for your current ideas about your future, and about the learning those new ideas make you want to dive into. Writing i a mode of cognition, a way of knowing. Making such a draft, structuring carefully your sense of new possibilities and new doubts, would be very valuable for you. When you come back to that essay—later in law school and afterwards—you will see that it captured a precious moment in your professional development.
Lawyering is about the conflicts we experience when we represent others in the pursuit of justice. Obligation to clients; our own needs—material, intellectual, moral, political, social—our courage and our fears; what we owe and what we believe we are owed; our powers granted by the state and contained in our licenses as against our powerlessness in the face of systems of injustice: all of these conflicts, internal and external, are embodied in the lawyers we become. Your growing sensitivity to those conflicts is a new power, a power to shape yourself in adulthood, developing out of, but also leaving behind, what your childhood gave you. Together let us use it. There is so very much to gain.
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So I often wonder if this feeling of guilt is a collective one or if this specific feeling is unique to me unlike the first one. And for those that did not let life form their career paths, how is it that they manage or figure out what they want? My curiosity lies within how people choose what they want to do with their lives because what seemed to me in the past as very black and white, has now added the color gray to the picture. | |
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This does well the crucial job of a first draft: it tells us what you want to write about and clears the ground. Now we can begin to make the building better.
One route to improvement is careful editing. The writing is unnecessarily repetitive. Many ideas are expressed more than once. So the task, once the substance is in place, is to make sure that every word in each sentence is pulling its weight: those that are not doing necessary work must go. Each sentence should express an idea that has not been expressed before, that builds on what has already been said, and that does unique work in the paragraph, or it too must go.
But our most important task in improving the essay is in its substance. The subject of the essay is the future, but almost all of what is in the first draft is about the past. So let's try a draft which is about its subject, in which the past is prologue. The autobiography is the right beginning, but we can do in six sentences what here takes 800 words. The essential points might be sketched roughly as follows (though I am not trying at all to use your tone or give them your personal resonance):
Since at least third grade, I have wanted to be a lawyer, a criminal defense lawyer in particular. I grew up in over-policed places, constantly exposed to the power of the cops, and even their dogs. As I grew up, my family, my friends and my neighbors were subjected to the random power of the criminal justice system: arrest, trial, imprisonment and ruin. I felt the possibility, and the obligation, to be their defender. All my choices in school and in work have been made to further that objective. But now that I am in law school, I feel a conflict between the work I feel I grew up to do and a broader sense of the possibilities that lawyering might hold for me.
I'm sure that those aren't the right 125 words. You would want to use more, and different ones, no doubt. But even if the introduction were twice as long as my cartoon, that would still leave three quarters of the space to use for your current ideas about your future, and about the learning those new ideas make you want to dive into. Writing i a mode of cognition, a way of knowing. Making such a draft, structuring carefully your sense of new possibilities and new doubts, would be very valuable for you. When you come back to that essay—later in law school and afterwards—you will see that it captured a precious moment in your professional development.
Lawyering is about the conflicts we experience when we represent others in the pursuit of justice. Obligation to clients; our own needs—material, intellectual, moral, political, social—our courage and our fears; what we owe and what we believe we are owed; our powers granted by the state and contained in our licenses as against our powerlessness in the face of systems of injustice: all of these conflicts, internal and external, are embodied in the lawyers we become. Your growing sensitivity to those conflicts is a new power, a power to shape yourself in adulthood, developing out of, but also leaving behind, what your childhood gave you. Together let us use it. There is so very much to gain.
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Future Conflict
-- By DianaAvila - 22 Feb 2024
Introduction
One of the first questions you are asked when you are young is “what do you want to be when you grow up?” And at that age, the sky's the limit. I remember hearing things like actresses, astronauts, and pro soccer players. And in all honesty, all of that seemed super fun and interesting for us. But yet that was never really my thing. Sometimes I thought maybe I could be a teacher or even the president. These careers just never seemed fulfilling to me. So I kept searching until it finally clicked.
Choosing a Path
For as long as I could remember, that said click led me to wanting to be an attorney. And that is what I have wanted to be ever since. It is intriguing to me that somehow by the age of eight years old, I knew exactly what to say when asked “what do you want to be when you grow up?” I never really struggled with the jumping from career to career although I did think of them. I just could not see myself doing anything else. But truly what did I know at that age? Once I set my mind on it and shared it with others I got a lot of “you have the attitude for it” or the typical “well you are good at arguing.”
At first, wanting to be a lawyer was just a career choice, but that was for the younger and more innocent version of myself. That changed fast. As I started to grow, I began to understand the role of the criminal system in communities like mine. We were always being surveilled by the sheriffs that stayed on our campuses. As well as being searched randomly by these deputies and sometimes even their K-9s. It was like a part of my life was always being exposed to officers. This was only the tip of the iceberg. The older we got the more violent things got. A lot of my loved ones were affected by the system directly and these searches became arrests.Then officers turned into courtrooms.
It was almost as if I had known what life was going to be like for me. And the more I lived these experiences the more I realized that younger me had a purpose in choosing to be an attorney. Everything I went through just reinforced my idea of wanting to be a criminal defense attorney. It was a way that I knew could help protect communities like mine whether it was through ardent defense or simply making the legal system accessible to those who did not understand it. Because aside from being criminalized my community was mainly composed of low-income households who oftentimes were Spanish speakers only. The process of hiring a private attorney was too costly or simply understanding legal jargon can be too difficult. And I have always wanted to be that bridge.
Life Choosing for Us
Yet I know this experience probably isn’t unique to me. I often think about how many of us have chosen our career paths from past experiences, traumas, etc. Many of the people who I have met that are pursuing “higher education,” have their reasons for pursuing their career. For example, many of the people I have met that are going to medical school, they chose this path because of lack of resources in their community or even their own experience with the inaccessibility of that specific system. Some of the people that I know that want to do education are doing it because they went into low-income education systems and saw how it impacted them. But there is always a very visible connection.
Somehow, some way our career paths have been almost “chosen” for us. We have allowed for personal experiences or community based issues to sway our decisions for the rest of our lives. And we somehow carry that weight. Well at least I know I do. However, I would like to understand what sways those people who do not have these experiences. I would like to understand how they came about choosing their career paths. And if they follow through with them.
Inner Conflict
The issue with allowing my lived experiences to sway me and what may be a trend is this idea of “tunnel vision.” As soon as I decided what I wanted to do, I never took my foot from the pedal. Everything I did ranging from internships to jobs were catered to that. However, a very hard blow I took was actually coming to law school. This was one of my first experiences really understanding what I could do with a law degree that did not require me to relive my past trauma or even find other ways to impact communities like mine. And the more I grapple with different material, the more I contemplate my why.
The Now
And when I say that, I don’t mean I regret coming or that I do not want to continue, but more so thinking about the kind of attorney I want to be. In Law and Contemporary Society we are always grappling with what kind of attorney we want to be and whether following some kind of “standard” is even beneficial to us. I find myself thinking about this a lot, but a sense of guilt always gets triggered. Contemplating a different kind of law because it could give me the life I want to live or just because it seems intriguing, makes me feel like I am abandoning my community.
Conclusion
So I often wonder if this feeling of guilt is a collective one or if this specific feeling is unique to me unlike the first one. And for those that did not let life form their career paths, how is it that they manage or figure out what they want? My curiosity lies within how people choose what they want to do with their lives because what seemed to me in the past as very black and white, has now added the color gray to the picture.
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