This week I've been doing LatinoJustice's LawBound program and it's been a blast!
We visited law schools, had great guest speakers, visited the attorney general's office, did workshops, etc. I've learned a ton about the different types of law! The attorney general's office was full of good, friendly people and I love how frank they were and how a lot of LatinoJustice "alumni" are there too.
Today we visited Verizon Wireless' offices and met with the general counsel and their attorneys, and I was SO inspired. The people are great, passionate, humble and I really liked the atmosphere. I never knew being in house counsel would be that way. I didn't know much about it at all actually. But I left feeling, "I WANT TO BE GENERAL COUNSEL!"
The senior VP/general counsel went to my mom's college, and so we talked a lot about that, haha. He was so friendly. The attorneys love what they do, and they told us their paths to their current positions, and you really don't know what life will throw at you.
Tomorrow we'll visit Cleary & Gottlieb's offices, and the next day we're going to court I think. I'm so grateful for this opportunity. It's as if LatinoJustice is EVERYWHERE. Whether they're former board members, LJ attorneys, interns, Lawbound scholars, it's as if they're in all these places and want to help future Latino/Latina leaders and that's wonderful ^^;
This is nerdy of me, but our guest speaker today went off on a tangent and said how one older male student came to her and was crying and extremely upset because his wife was cheating on him. He didn't know what to do, and so she advised him to get out of the city for a few days to clear his head and expose himself to something new. He ended up doing a law school program in Australia. When he came back to speak to her, he had a bounce in his step and was all smiles--he was a new person! She was like, "What happened?!" and he said he divorced his wife, found someone new (who he married), and even started a business. Moral of the story: change of scenery is really great for you when you're having a bad time, learning about a different culture too. I raised my hand and said, "I AGREE!
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