-- GideonHart - 17 Jan 2008

I had been thinking about going to law school for awhile, most of college really. Initially, it was for practical reasons; leaving college was scary, and law school seemed a practical solution. However, it was several trips to New Orleans that really gave me the incentive to study law. It was impossible not to feel as though the difference that volunteers were making there was meaningless – fixing a house was a great achievement, yet, the parts of the city where people needed help most desperately looked no more recovered nearly two years after the storm than they did six months after. I realized that to make a difference in situations like New Orleans it was going to take more than volunteers; it was going to take individuals who could make a difference at a higher level, and that by providing adequate legal representation, law is a route by which that can be done.