Huh! But even in my first year as a practicing attorney, I earned five times what a first-year teacher made in the district where I’d taught. I worked hard in my first year of practicing law. But I didn’t work five times harder than I’d worked in my first year of teaching. In fact, I didn’t work any harder. Maybe I worked a little less. But I continued to practice. I continued to learn. Nine years after my law school graduation, I think I have some idea of how to litigate a case. But I am not a perfect lawyer. There is still more I could learn, more I could do, better legal instincts I could develop over time. I could hone my strategic sense. I could do better, be better. Learn more law. Learn more procedure. But law is a practice, law is a profession. Lawyers are expected to evolve over the course of their careers. Lawyers are given more responsibility as they earn it. New teachers take on full responsibility the day they set foot in their first classrooms. The people I encounter out in the world now respect me as a lawyer, as a professional, in part because the vast majority of them have absolutely no idea what I really do. All of you former students who are not teachers and not lawyers, you have no more idea of what it is to teach than you do of what it is to practice law.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:19:38 +0000
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