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JessicaEgbebikeFirstEssay 4 - 26 May 2021 - Main.JessicaEgbebike
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| | | In a different case, I was responsible for researching the legality of Florida's anti-panhandling statutes. Motivated by the idea of my father spending days on end panhandling in the streets of Nigeria, I was eager to begin my research. In this role, I brought a unique perspective for protecting people in circumstances my parents had grown out of. After presenting my memorandum about how the ordinances would violate the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, SLC decided to file a lawsuit to challenge the statutes. After the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida found the statute to violate the First Amendment, I saw firsthand the significant change that could happen through legal efforts. At SLC, both of my aspirations—helping my community and honoring the path my parents want for me—converged and formed my love of the law. | |
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As I continue to discover the impact I could have through the law, my view of practicing the law has broadened, increasing my flexibility in exploring different practice groups. As a first-generation Nigerian-American, I struggle with what I want personally and financially in my career. I only hope that one day, doing what I love will not compromise my chance at being financially secure enough to provide for my family. | >
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As I continue to discover the impact I could have through the law, my view of practicing the law has broadened, increasing my flexibility in exploring different practice groups. As a first-generation Nigerian-American, I struggle with what I want personally and financially in my career. Now, I hope to do what I love without compromising my chance at being financially secure enough to provide for my family. I have learned that by joining a New York City law firm with a global presence, I can take on international arbitration matters while participating in asylum pro bono work. In order to achieve my goals, I have applied to the American Review of International Arbitration and have begun researching my future note topic.
I was able to learn more about International Arbitration from Columbia alumni the Office of Career Services have put me in contact with. I was able to build my network through the various panels and mentorship opportunities hosted throughout the semester. I intend on earning a big law salary for about eight years in order to be financially secure. Upon speaking with different partners and associates, I discovered that many associates in international arbitration leave to become a professor, arbitrator, or work in the government within ten years of practicing. Nonetheless, I look forward to building my practice in international arbitration. | | | | |
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< | This first draft served the essential purpose: it got you to the question. Both as autobiography and as analysis, it refined the issue it only can raise in its last sentence: how do I build a practice in which I can do work that I want and meet my material needs? The brush has now been cleared: you have shown us both why you can frame such a practice, because you know how to combine love of justice with the work ethic that will not only deliver for clients but for yourself. So what remains are the real issues, which lie not in the past but in the future: how to make such a practice and how to use law school to prepare yourself for that building process. That resolves into another layer of fundamental questions: | | | | |
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< | What do you want to practice about? That includes not only the work in specialties where practicing profitably is hard, and other specialties, where you also enjoy working, that can finance the practice as a whole. Where do you want to work, in real geographic and social space? How do you need to use law school to fit you to get the results you will deliver to clients from your practice, and Who does law school have to help you add to your network who will assist you to deliver those results and to find and be retained by the clients to whom you will deliver them? Finally, How Much does this practice have to produce in order to make it self-sustaining, and to afford you the level of income that will satisfy the need for yourself, for family, etc.? These are the basic objectives on which a strategy to build your practice, from its beginnings in law school to the other end, can be based. The next draft of this essay can't be The Plan, or even the plan to have The Plan, because it's too early. But you can begin to train your imagination, which is all that you need at this stage. | | |
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