first of all both my father and my
mother are attorneys
so that may have had something to do
with it
but i will tell you that there was
there’s a different answer which is i
remember something in high school
actually i was reading about
in rome they had
people who knew the law and therefore
had
greater place in society
and then there were people who didn’t
know the law and that separated them and
that um prejudiced them in society they
quite it was a caste system based upon
knowledge of
the law
so i found that very interesting and i
found that it really turned out to be
true to a certain extent that even
knowing what your rights are knowing
what the law is you know they say
knowledge is power
knowing
you know what is possible knowing what’s
not possible
really is very empowering
and it’s nice to be able to help people
and impart that knowledge
and experience with other people
i am a
certified matrimonial law attorney i’ve
been practicing 30 years incidentally i
don’t know where the time went but in
any event a board-certified attorney is
someone who has
made application to to be that person to
be
certified by the supreme court as
essentially an expert in the area of
matrimonial law which subsumes all areas
of family law
and what you need to be qualified are a
number of things you need
recommendations of colleagues
you need recommendations of judges
you need to have a number of
trials
you need to have
to have passed tests it’s quite an
onerous process
but the
the real where really where the rubber
hits the road let’s just say
is that you really need to have the
confidence
of your colleagues and of judges
because the supreme court takes that
very seriously um and they read what
your colleagues will write about you and
they read what
judges will write about you and then of
course there’s just the experience which
is invaluable you know you don’t
you can’t try a case until you’ve tried
a case
you know you have to have
experience you have to know what you’re
doing there’s nothing like experience