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so as an attorney i believe that the law
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should be accessible to everyone and i
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believe that
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no one should be excluded from it
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fundamentally i
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don’t like bullies and i don’t like it
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when when people are
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are not being treated fairly and i think
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the law is supposed to be the great
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equalizer
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i think we’re all supposed to be judged
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the same way in terms of the law and how
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we relate to the law
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so my philosophy is i want to practice
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law in a way that makes
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the law accessible i want to teach my
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clients just as much as i am
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i’m i’m teaching another attorney i want
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to explain to them what what
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what’s going on i want to make sure that
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they have me as a resource to do that
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i was when i was in high school not
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the greatest student in the world and
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when i graduated i didn’t really have
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much of a future
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in terms of going to college or getting
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involved in
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academic pursuits so i enlisted in the
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military i spent eight years on active
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duty
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in the service and while i was in the
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military i experienced
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a lot of things good and bad i got
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married i had a child i got divorced
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i went through my own divorce while a
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service member and then when
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i went back to college i decided that i
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really wanted to focus on
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my academics for the first time in my
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life and
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i proceeded to go through college pretty
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quickly got done in about two years and
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moved on to law school
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when i was in college in law school i
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was still in the reserves
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i was deployed overseas at one point i
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think a lot of those
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real world experiences have shaped what
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i do
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now as an attorney i certainly feel that
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i i speak with a degree of
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authenticity when i’m dealing with a
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client who is in the military
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or is dealing with a divorce or is
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otherwise
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dealing with an issue involving uh the
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criminal law i
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at one point had a relative who was
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incarcerated and
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i would visit him in jail it sort of
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widened my perspective
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in terms of how i looked at the world
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and and and how i saw
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people in the world and so i bring that
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to my practice
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i think the cornerstone of my practice
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is
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empathy thinking back on how i
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experienced things
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and realizing that my clients are going
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through very much the same things that
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i’ve gone through
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members of my family have gone through
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and so that is really what guides me
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in everything that i do now