Andrew: I didn't see the caption to this thread nor did I find a place on the Wiki where i thought this conversation would be more appropriate. Perhaps you could link in your next comment to the appropriate page and copy/paste the relevant comments there.

Barb: I think what you're saying about autonomy is extremely true. To an extent all the questions/criteria are subjective valuations we need to make for ourselves.

Also, I'd like to think the answer is within myself but then I don't see the point to discussing these questions in class. Is the point to make us think about what we actually want? I know I thought long and hard about what I wanted to get from my career before this class. I don't think I'm unique in that regard.

What I was hoping to get from this class is information/solutions routes to my questions and desires. If the point was to get us to ask ourselves what we want, then I think the discussion is unnecessary. And as much as we may be able to learn from each other, most of us have no real knowledge of what it is like to be a lawyer, let alone an autonomous one.

There are a few people in the class who have spent time as paralegals, or with sufficient familial knowledge on law practice who may be able to shed some light on this. But even then that knowledge is limited and secondhand, if it is relevant at all.

-- JulianBaez - 14 Apr 2008