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</head><body><p>Thanks, Rob, for sharing your materials, and thanks also for volunteering. I am not doing a presentation this year, although I have in the past, and I found it to be one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. I encourage others to volunteer as I think both lawyers and students get a great deal out of activities such as this.<br></p><blockquote type="cite"><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --><!-- <![endif] --><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --><!-- <![endif] -->On April 5, 2016 at 10:08 AM Rob Wilson-Hoss <rob@hctc.com> wrote:<br><br><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Rob</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Robert D. Wilson-Hoss <br>Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP <br>236 West Birch Street <br>Shelton, WA 98584 <br>360 426-2999</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><a href="www.hossandwilsonhoss.com"><span style="color: blue;">www.hossandwilson-hoss.com</span></a><br>rob@hctc.com</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">This message is intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any use, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or by telephone (call us collect at the number listed above) and immediately delete this message and any and all of its attachments. 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