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GeorgeMenzFirstEssay 6 - 19 May 2024 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | To which you respond, understandably: Okay, good for you, what then? Lawyers do not defend the law in the abstract but in the concrete. Their practice requires them to acquire some domain-specific knowledge which gives them both a market advantage and an edge in practical terms over their competitors. I will admit that at the moment there is not one area of law that I feel I would like to dedicate myself to completely. I will say, however, that this seems like a high bar to clear. I do not feel insecure in law school because I do not know in which field of law I want to specialize. I feel insecure, when I do feel insecure, because I feel incompetent: that is to say, I feel like I have the wrong end of the stick on a grand scale. Then again, this is the position I think I have occupied through my childhood, my youth, my entire life. Optimistically, I would say: I will figure it out. Otherwise, I will survive, as long as anyone else can. | |
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Perhaps instead of needing to believe you are smart it would be possible to wish to be wise. Perhaps if you think about lives led in the law you will conclude that interpersonal skills have not always been the key to success. Perhaps to the extent that we can isolate "interpersonal skills" that are valuable to lawyers, we would center upon sincerity, truthfulness, and even-temper. These can be achieved without the requirement of charm, warmth, or charisma.
I am not contradicted and don't feel opposed. I spoke of reasons to be a lawyer that have proved in my experience to be durable. This is not an essay about the achievement of durability, which is, in the guise of survival, assumed.
The stick has more than two ends, so there is not so much a wrong one as one one doesn't know one is holding.
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