Why I Attended Law School

The stories I read in Doing Ourselves Justice: (Re) Committing to a Life of the Law, seem to depict individuals that went to law school to help other people or to solve some type of injustice. However, my journey is personal and quite different. My path to law school began when I was twelve years old growing up in the city of Detroit. I remember when I was at church a lady asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I stated, a lawyer. I do not know why I said that I wanted to become a lawyer. After all, what does a twelve year old know about being a lawyer, especially when never exposed to the field.