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FernandoGarciaFirstEssay 4 - 06 Jun 2024 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | A (Revised) Reflection on Choosing a Practice | | | My motivation behind choosing a practice that focuses on systemic issues within the criminal justice and immigration systems is deeply personal, based on my lived experience. I was born in Guatemala and, alongside my family, I moved to the United States as a child. My experience with the US immigration system will forever be part of my life—and my family was extremely fortunate. It took us eleven years to become US citizens, but many members of my extended family do not enjoy the same legal status I do. Some members of my family persevered through their college education, but are not authorized to work in this country. Moreover, members of my family have been incarcerated and even deported back to our homeland. Growing up having to constantly worry about mine and my family’s legal status, and the implications thereof, helped me realize that these systems cannot remain in their current form. It is my goal that the damage they have caused my family, and countless other families, does not persist. | |
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Good, this was helpful to you, I hope.
Where means literally geographically where. Lawyers have licenses granted by states, and political economies depenednt on where they choose to live.
What means literally what: hat services do you perform for which clients and how do you make money by charging for them?
With whom, means literally with whom: what is the network of people in and surrounding your practice that make it possible for you to serve clients and who help you find and be retained by the clients your income depends on serving.
How much means literally how much: how many clients can you serve at what prices in order to produce what income minus the expenses of serving which are your profits, which must be enough.
Why means not what is the story of your childhood, or what is your motivation, but literally why do you believe that providing these particular services to these clients will meet your material, intellectual, social and political needs, which means saying what those needs are and considering how they will be met.
It is not an objection that you haven't answered a single one of those questions: as you say, you haven't actually been through the exercise and it isn't time yet. More important, however, is your decision to take yourself out of the road altogether. You say you can't have a practice of your own and need to work for someone else first. Fine, of course. That's your way and you should journey on it. But in Planning Your Practice we plan actual practices, so you probably don't want to spend effort on it.
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