[WSBARP] career day/way off topic

[MK Henderson]

Thank you for sharing Rob.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Rob Wilson-Hoss <rob at hctc.com> wrote:

>           For those of you who are presenting at school career days or Law
> Day, I did so recently and was asked to share my stuff. See attached.
> First, I hand out the two-sided paper with one side, Other Careers with Law
> Degree, and the other, Legal Specialties. I give one example, usually: so,
> you want to help people drill wells in rural Africa. If you have a law
> degree, then you can better help them with who owns the land where the well
> is going to be, who will have the rights to the water, what if things
> change over time, how to deal with the labor and costs to do the drilling,
> what about permits and governmental interests and maybe bribes, what about
> landlord tenant stuff for your team and the workers, what about the actual
> nonprofit you are working for and its rules and requirements, pre-arrival
> issues such as visas and approvals and access, planning ahead for the next
> project, and so on.
>
>
>
>           Then I move on and don't refer to that again at all. After about
> 30 seconds of, I am a lawyer and I work for XYZ, and it takes high school,
> a four year college degree, and a three year law school degree, although
> some do the law study part on their own; I go right into the hypotheticals.
> Gives them an chance to engage, and they always talk.  I direct things a
> little bit towards the general proposition that lawyers help people solve
> problems. I am also prone to emphasizing that lawyers can be mediators or
> help people get into mediations to help solve their own problems.
>
>
>
>           Anyone who has taught knows the joys and risks - often really
> engaging, creative thinking out loud by interesting kids; versus the
> occasional self-focused kid with prpbably abuse and other outside of school
> issues who wants to dominate things.  It can make one appreciate the skills
> of everyday teachers who know how to handle their classrooms, for sure.
>
>
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> Robert D. Wilson-Hoss
> Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP
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> rob at hctc.com
>
>
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Mary K. Henderson
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