being a family law attorney first and

foremost it’s a difficult profession

there’s a lot of tension there’s a lot

of animosity so

that goes along with the rewards as well

a lot of the times to proceed from the

beginning to the end of a case you face

a lot of obstacles there’s a lot of

difficulties and particularly for the

client it’s a really difficult process

so

the reward is often seeing your client

being in a much better position at the

end of the case than they were at the

beginning of the case or even during the

proceedings so ultimately seeing your

client not only them but also their

children or child

get to a place where you see them being

comfortable and happy going forward

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of course i went to law school but uh

just going to law school and taking the

bars while it’s the prerequisite to

becoming a lawyer there’s a lot of other

experiences you should build upon to

help you in a practice for me personally

starting with my university education

taking a lot of classes in in writing in

literature

in psychology and sociology i think

really helped me to broaden my

experience and my knowledge and be able

to deal

especially with people with my clients

with judges with opposing attorneys and

to really be able to anticipate the

emotions of what clients feel

undergoing the litigation process

anticipating how a witness is going to

testify in the stand anticipating how a

judge is going to perceive it so i think

a lot of my experience of knowledge

comes from that but also i think a lot

of writing i’ve done in the past whether

it’s for my law school newspaper whether

it’s professional articles i’ve

published or just writing

novels or things of that sort of my

spare time have really helped me develop

the writing aspect of preparing

pleadings preparing cross-examination

questions closing arguments that i think

can be really compelling and persuasive

in the courtroom