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WilliamDavidWilliamsSecondPaper 10 - 03 Sep 2012 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | Although I had a great first week at the firm, as a long term career I am not sure being a lawyer would be the most fulfilling. My students were elated that I came to see them graduate, but other students at my school really wanted me to come back. One of them is doing drugs more, and I am concerned that he is losing hope. Some of them have lost family members too. My mother also is having a hard time adjusting to the prospect of living on her own in North Carolina after my sister goes to college in September. She has been disabled from rheumatoid arthritis for almost three decades, and now her condition is getting worse. She is the reason why I really began to seriously consider becoming a lawyer. It is difficult to ascertain the best way to be there for her now. Can these values co-exist or are they mutually exclusive? Dealing with these concerns will be a challenge, but writing and reading the chronicles have helped me not only gain awareness of the concerns but move closer to a solution. I'm going to reflect more and see where it leads... | |
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> | This draft reflects well both the excitement involved in working as
an intern in a practice that values its ability to inspire law
students, and the ambivalence that comes from combining adult
responsibilities in existing networks of personal relationship with
the process of intellectual exploration and self-discovery. The
combination of (relatively) naive excitement and (relatively) sober
thought about long-term consequences is not the environment for
making life decisions. It's good that you've decided to return to
law school; in the next two years, your ideas about your own practice
will mature, leading you to some tentative conclusions around which
you will begin to shape your post-graduation practice. The sober
realities of adult life will not abate, though they may change. Your
practice will be one of the primary vehicles, along with the new
relationships you form, for dealing with your long-existing adult
responsibilities from within a newly adult life.
I don't know what editing should be done here. In my view, it would
be better to begin a new project soon, writing not about what was,
but once again about what is happening.
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Hi William David, |
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