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I decided to become a lawyer because I went to a private university, I went to Baylor and when I was a kid I was really lucky to have a lady that recruited me to be on the high school debate team. And I went to a really, really small school and this lady was really talented, she actually left Sanger and transitioned to Denton after that, but she helped recruit another debate coach to come to Sanger and teach speech and drama who’s one of my favorite people in the world. So I grew up sort of with an academic competitive nature and I really enjoyed my high school experience. And every summer we’d save money and I went to Baylor University to go to debate camp And Baylor had a great debate program and its got a great law school that focuses on advocacy. And early, early on I learned that that’s what I wanted to do.

Because I was going to a private school, I had to go to work to help my family fund my education. So the second semester I was there I sent a number of letters out to a lot of businesses in town. The letters all said kind of the same thing, it said I’m willing to do whatever you need me to do and that includes sweep, mop, do work out in your yard, whatever. And this law firm hired me and it was one of the more prominent firms in Waco, a wonderful bunch of guys, and I loved them and I loved what they did and I became pretty clear to me early on in my college career that I wanted to be a lawyer and that I wanted to do trial advocacy.

Texas Business Litigation Attorney, Jeff Springer, talks about why he went into law.

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