A Lawyer's Epitaph

This draft feels to me like a good start, clearing the brush. But "Don't be Evil" isn't really enough of a strategic direction for either Google or you. The point of the inquiry is to begin locating the professional destination you do want, not just to rule out outcomes which, as described, aren't really anyone's preferred destination.

Motive, it seems to me, you have expressed vividly and well. An externship, as a solution, is more speculative fantasy than strategy.

The Searle theme seems to me one that can be left on the cutting-room floor. The philosophical question the image was designed to raise isn't really the issue you are pursuing: however faint-heartedly it may do so, a law school does in fact speak law. And the language-acquisition phase of your education ended more or less fully before we met. While I'm glad that the course may have helped to establish the purpose of creative thinking about your future practice, I'm less satisfied with the degree of success in teaching how to do the thinking. If you are inclined to try to do what you can with what you have, then indeed it is important to assess your resources—what you have in hand—in order to form a deliberate plan to get what else you need. Those elements (things you know how to do, put metaphorically in the license; and people you know who can help you deliver results and find clients to whom to deliver them, not so metaphorically described as your network) are the productive subjects of speculation at this point. Improving the draft means making them more present in it.