Closing Argument

People often ask me why I became a lawyer. Lately, these questions come mostly from the college-age (and college-bound) sons and daughters of friends who are considering a legal career in the wake of the Great Recession and the sea change in opportunities for newly minted law grads. This is what I tell them. I was 13 years old when my parents divorced in 1971. We lived in a small town of 5,000 people in …