My impression is that the practice of law promotes individuality among its participants by encouraging them to engage their interests in critical ways that are unavailable in other professions. Lawyers are united by a common thirst for knowledge, and they indulge this thirst by choosing the realms about which they are most passionate and then rapidly developing their particular knowledge about those areas. In practice, they combine this knowledge with creativity to identify and solve difficult problems. Likewise, I hope that the law school experience helps me to choose a path that is intellectually stimulating, economically and socially valuable, and personally enriching. In sum, I want to find work that is right for me.

-- JonathanFriedman - 15 Jan 2009