When I was 12 years old, I walked into the district attorney’s office of my Kansas hometown and asked for a job. I was inspired by onscreen lawyers depicted as hardworking professionals fighting for the rights of others or strategizing the best way to pull off a multibillion transaction. Despite the advice of everyone in the profession, I spent my entire adolescence and young adulthood preparing to become a lawyer.
I was ecstatic when I was accepted and then graduated from Harvard Law School. I had spent more than a decade envisioning all that I’d do with my law degree.
