Preface
Dear Beloved,
Long time no see, I hope you have all been well. Here we are again, close to the end of the year. Frankly, I did not think I would be releasing a write-up anytime soon, but I was given the opportunity to submit a creative reflection as an assignment for one of my classes and I thought, “Why not submit a Substack entry?”
As you may know from my last write-up, I am in law school. This term I took a seminar class called Resilient Lawyering. If you ever attend Peter A. Allard School of Law, I highly recommend you take this class. Its focus is to provide a space for law students to explore their ideal professional future. We touched on things like discovering your core values; mental health and well-being; the changes brought by AI and technological advances; and the overall future of the legal profession.
Furthermore, our professor brought in many amazing guest speakers to share their stories and address various topics affecting the practice of law in British Columbia, Canada and the world. The class was small, which allowed everyone to be more vulnerable and engage authentically in class discussions. Most of all, it is one of the few classes in law school that encouraged us to explore our creative side. No exam. No heavily researched academic paper. Instead, we were tasked with writing two reflective papers—and this write-up is one of mine.
I also wrote a song to accompany this write-up. It’s called “Tugging in my Soul”, and it is a sort of prologue to the rest of the write-up so I recommend you listen to it first! The song is not mixed or mastered. There are no instruments. It is just me, a mic and some words from my heart. Still, I hope you enjoy it ☺
p.s. If you are a Christian law student, I have a note for you at the end. Even if you don’t read the whole write-up please scroll to the bottom and read the note. If you know any Christian law students please share this with them!
p.p.s. This is a school assignment so the write-up is a lot longer than usual, sorry!
Introduction
As you have probably gathered from the song, my decision to obtain a law degree was not linear. I have always loved acting, but I never thought of it as a viable educational pursuit. I knew I could do it “on the side”, but my parents encouraged me to cultivate a more stable, professional career as well—it was important to have a backup plan. For over a decade I told everyone that I would go to medical school and become a gynaecologist, but when I took my Grade 10 science class I realized I couldn’t study science for the rest of my life. Now I had a big problem…
How was I going to explain this to my African parents?
I sought advice from my mentor at the time, and our conversation essentially went like this:
Mentor: Elsie, I know you want to study Theatre in university.
Me: Yes.
Mentor: But your parents will never pay for that, and honestly you should honour their sacrifice in bringing you to Canada by listening to them and pursuing a more traditional degree. Have you ever considered law? It’s a versatile degree, you get some of the theatre experience in the courtroom, and ultimately it’s beneficial whether you end up practicing or not. I think you’d make a great lawyer.
That was basically all it took. I dropped my courses the next term, called several law firms, and did a co-op placement at a boutique law firm in Mississauga. I had already made the mistake of thinking I knew my dream career and finding out I was wrong so I wanted to get some hands-on experience in law. The lawyers I worked for were kind, and I got to see their day-to-day work lives. Through working for them, I decided that becoming a lawyer would not be so bad.
After high school, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in International Studies at York University’s Glendon Campus. During my undergrad, I was scouted as a model and my dream of becoming an actress was revived. I also gave my life to Christ during this time and started my faith journey. When I graduated, I took a gap year and considered putting law school on hold to follow my creative aspirations. However, as I prayed about it I deeply felt that I was called to go to law school. I did not know the full picture of what my career would look like, but I knew that going to law school was the right thing for me to do. So I applied, and miraculously got in! To watch my YouTube video about it, click here.
As you read this write-up you will notice that I have wrestled a lot with questions about my future, and the purpose of this law degree. You will see me highlight the negative aspects of the legal profession and the challenges lawyers face. However, I want to make one thing clear: this law school journey has been a blessing.
I have doubted, cried, and gone through very tough moments but I can confidently say that if I never practice law a day in my life, this degree would still be worth it. At the start, I could not fathom why God would encourage me to get a law degree, but now I am so grateful for it. This process has taught me discipline, diligence, resourcefulness, analytical thinking and perseverance. I have grown so much, and I know I will only keep growing.
On Well-being
Our first few Resilient Lawyering classes and readings focused heavily on informing us of the mental health and substance abuse crisis which has existed within the legal profession for decades. As a young law student, the statistics were far from encouraging.
In 2016, the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation published their study of nearly 13,000 currently practicing lawyers [the “Study”]. It found that between 21 and 36 percent qualify as problem drinkers, and that approximately 28 percent, 19 percent, and 23 percent are struggling with some level of depression, anxiety, and stress, respectively. The parade of difficulties also includes suicide, social alienation, work addiction, sleep deprivation, job dissatisfaction, a “diversity crisis,” complaints of work-life conflict, incivility, a narrowing of values so that profit predominates, and negative public perception. Notably, the Study found that younger lawyers in the first ten years of practice and those working in private firms experience the highest rates of problem drinking and depression.1
In the beginning, I tried to push aside any negative feelings that arose when I read about poor lawyer well-being. If you ask most people who know me, I think they would describe me as generally optimistic—and perhaps even idealistic—in my outlook on life. So, I kept telling myself that I would be an exception to the statistics, that it didn’t matter what others had been through, it would NOT be my story. Yet, I distinctly remember being on the bus going to school one day and finally cracking. As I was looking at one of the readings, tears began rolling down my eyes, and I thought to myself, “Why God? Why would you send me into a profession like this?” I did not embark on this career trajectory out of a passion for law, and this just felt like yet another reason to GET OUT. My heart has always leaned more toward acting and the creative arts. Ironically, as I look back on that moment on the bus, I now remember that the entertainment industry also has high levels of stress, depression, substance abuse and suicide. The two professions may not be all that different after all.
After looking at the harrowing statistics our professor asked us how we planned to ensure that we maintained good well-being and work-life balance when we began practicing. I think I know what I need to do to feel balanced and healthy in my career, but I don’t know how I will do it.
My Needs
The list of my needs is straightforward: Prayer/Time in God’s Presence. Sleep/Rest. Exercise. Community. Creativity. I will proceed to touch a little on what each of these things means to me.
Prayer/Time in God’s Presence:
I have been doing my best to have time for prayer and God’s Word every morning and night. When I do, it makes a huge difference in how my day goes. My spiritual life and relationship with God are essential to my well-being. In my first year, I struggled with having a good balance in this area of my life, and it showed. During the Fall reading week of that year, I completely crashed and became a sobbing, burnt-out mess. It was only after I crawled back into the loving arms of my Heavenly Father, and journaled my heart to Him that I felt better again. I was more at peace and hopeful despite nothing in my external circumstances changing yet.
Sleep/Rest
I struggle with resting enough as well. I remember how in my first year of law school I underestimated one of my major final assignments. I had put off getting started on it until about three days before its due date. As a result, I had to work really long hours to try and get it done. I spent 12 hours a day, for 3 consecutive days, working on this paper. I was SO EXHAUSTED that my body began shaking uncontrollably. I finally had to force myself to stop and drag myself to bed to sleep. I acknowledge that I was put in this situation because of my lack of time management. However, if that experience was a glimpse into what working long hours might be like as a practicing lawyer, that is NOT the kind of work-life balance I want.
Community
I feel like exercise is self-explanatory so I’ll proceed to community. Community has become an integral part of my life over the past 2 years. I have three wonderful roommates whom I live with, and a church community I love. The house I live in is not just a place to take shelter, it is a home. A home because of the people who live in, and visit it. I love that I have people I can talk to, rely on and trust. People who care for me deeply, and for whom I feel the same. I love that we pray together, and have monthly gatherings. I love that we have had the privilege of opening our home to others as a sanctuary when they needed help or were going through a low point in their lives. I love that when I was working hard on my assignment for those three days, one of my roommates placed a sticky note on my laptop, encouraging me not to give up. I love that I get to experience and give love in this way. None of us are perfect, but I am so grateful to have a community like this, and it made me realize how much I cherish having deep, meaningful relationships with those around me. I would want a similar depth of relationship with my colleagues at my workplace. I feel as though this might be a widely held view because many lawyers I have asked say that their favourite part about their workplace is the people.
Creativity
Finally, creativity. I want to find a way to blend my love for storytelling with my legal career. I am not sure exactly what that will look like, but I know that I need it. This write-up alone is evidence of that. Last year, I found out about an event called The Lawyer Show. This event brings lawyers and legal professionals together to organize and perform in a theatrical production. The best part is, it’s all for charity! I never expected law and theatre to crossover in such a direct way. The theatre kid in me was thrilled! While I went through the OCI/Structured Recruit process, I also got the wonderful opportunity to meet a lawyer who was a former model and another lawyer who used to be an opera singer. This further reinforced that there was a bridge between these two worlds, and I just had to find —or build—the right bridge for me.
Note for the non-law folks: OCIs stand for on-campus interviews—although they are virtual now— and the structured recruit process is basically how law students land internships at law firms for the summer after their second year. Depending on the city, it runs sometime between June and November. It is notorious for being stressful, all-consuming and competitive.
Our First Guest Speaker
As I mentioned in the introduction, our professor brought in a lot of guest speakers to talk to us. Our first guest speaker was a lawyer turned pastor. I think this was the first time I had seen a pastor being invited to talk to us at the law school. As a Christian law student, it meant so much to me, and I was excited to hear her story. I appreciated how vulnerable and honest she was with us about her struggles with mental health as a legal professional and her far-from-linear career path.
She stressed the importance of each of us having a solid foundation of personal values. If we did not work on that now, it was likely that somewhere down the line we would begin to take on our employers’ values as our own and lose sight of what truly matters to us. After having a really unhappy start to her career, and then doing some introspection, she realized that her happiness was very important to her. She told us, “For me, it was more important to make almost no money, and be happy.” Luckily, she found a way to make money and be happy, but it was important for her to identify what mattered to her more, AND clearly outline what happiness entailed for her.
She then went on to explain that in addition to our core values, it is helpful to identify what our strengths and weaknesses are. “Telling the truth about yourself is one of the most powerful tools in your toolkit,” she said. So, we took a moment and asked ourselves, “What skills am I genuinely good at? What skills am I genuinely bad at?”
I found the list of good skills relatively easy: speaking, storytelling, encouraging others, and designing. My list of bad skills was a bit more difficult to come up with: I struggle with not being hard on myself, I struggle with letting go of the past, I struggle with being present, and I struggle with time management.
Although I know there are things I am bad at, I struggle to admit them because I feel like admitting to them means I am accepting them as part of my identity. I feel as though, I am telling myself that I am bad at these things and will never change. Conversely, staunchly denying that I struggle with anything at all has not been helpful either. There is a common saying that goes, “The first step to solving a problem is admitting that you have one.” So currently, my happy middle ground is telling myself, “I currently struggle with…” For me, it allows me to acknowledge my present struggles without feeling like I am making a permanent declaration over my life.
At some point in our guest speaker’s talk, she said something that really struck a chord with me. She said, “Give yourself the gift of not labelling your degrees.” My key takeaway was that just because we are all getting a law degree that doesn’t mean we have to use it the same way. A law degree gives us valuable skills which can be applied in a variety of ways. Just because we have a law degree doesn’t mean we have to practice in the traditional way—or even practice at all. For someone like me who is still finding her place in the law, her words were very encouraging.
Litigator or Solicitor?
One of the things I have wrestled with in law school has been the question of whether to become a litigator or a solicitor. People have often told me that they see me becoming a litigator, and on a practical level, I do prefer reading cases to contracts. The idea of a courtroom seems more compelling to me than a boardroom. Nevertheless, I realize I may be biased because law school is largely geared toward litigation. How much exposure have I actually had to solicitor’s work? Not much. How can I know I don’t like it unless I try it? I also met a tech lawyer who shared that while she was in law school everyone thought she had the personality of a litigator but she later found out that she loves being a solicitor instead.
Additionally, if my goal is primarily to use my legal skills to help my loved ones, being a litigator may not be the best fit. The truth is, I hope my loved ones DON’T need to take any cases to court. In law school, I have seen that litigation is usually a long, arduous and expensive process that does more harm than good in the long run. Although the theatrics of a courtroom appeal to me, I don’t think I could in good conscience recommend litigation to anyone.
In Resilient Lawyering we learned about mediation and alternative dispute-resolution methods. We learned about collaborative approaches to lawyering, and viewing lawyers as peacemakers instead of adversaries. These options really appeal to me—especially mediation. In the Pro Se Nation interview entitled “Can Lawyers be Peacemakers?” J.K. Wright, author of Lawyers as Peacemakers: Practicing Holistic, Problem Solving Law, spoke about her career practicing integrative law.2 Integrative law is a broad term that generally refers to practicing law in a holistic and service-oriented way.3 It is meant to be more humane/relational than the traditional model, and it seeks to promote healing, unity and well-being for both lawyers and their clients. Some lawyers also describe it as being an avenue for you to integrate yourself into your practice.4 Instead of being detached, and completely “objective”, integrative law encourages lawyers to incorporate their core values, beliefs and spirituality in serving their clients.5
Ms. Wright discussed how taking on a collaborative approach to her family law practice has had a meaningful impact on the lives of her clients. When asked about whether the collaborative process was cheaper than litigation in the long run, she shared this testimony she had received from a friend who had gone through the collaborative process in his divorce. He said,
“I don’t know if we saved money, but what I do know is that that other system would never have given me the relationship with my son’s mother that I have. That was priceless.”6
Should I practice, I would desire something similar for my clients as well. People often acquire lawyers during very low seasons in their lives. There is no reason why they should lose their relationships, health and even sanity in the process of trying to get a remedy to their legal problem.
Being in this course has taught me that the career options available to legal professionals are numerous. There are more areas of law, and styles of practicing law than we could possibly cover in three years of study, and the legal field is continuing to change and evolve. Right now, I may feel like I don’t fit the traditional model of this profession, but I don’t know all the options that are out there. With time, we will all find the right place for us, with the right people. It may just take a bit of trial and error to get there.
Being Present, and Trusting God’s Process
“Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?… If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?… Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
— Matthew 6:27, 30, 34 (NIV)
As I mentioned earlier, one of my struggles is being present and living in the moment. The Bible verse above encourages us not to worry about the future. Worrying does nothing, and it certainly cannot add a single hour to our lives. Still, I find myself worrying about my legal career all the time. Beyond the litigator vs solicitor question, there is the question of whether I should pursue Big Law, government, or public interest jobs. This year I found myself thinking about this a lot because of the OCI/ structured recruitment process. As I prepared to apply to prospective employers, all I wanted to say was, “I have no idea what I want to do!”. Obviously, I could not do that, so I spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of lawyer I was meant to become.
If you had asked me in high school I would have said a corporate lawyer in a big city, making big money, and quickly climbing up the ladder of prestige and influence. That was all I cared about back then. If you ask one of my mentors he would tell you that he thinks I am best suited for the public sector, advocating for the vulnerable and the voiceless. If you ask others, they may say I should be in international human rights, or policy work—or even, politics! Still, others might insist that given my love for the arts, it is only natural that I become an entertainment lawyer.
I have speculated about and ruminated on my future a lot. I have written and re-written the list of courses I plan to take in law school over a dozen times. I have tried to chart my path and make it clear, but still don’t have the perfect answer. All I know is that I have been given the great opportunity to work at a Big Law firm this summer. Only when I give it a try will I know if Big Law is for me or not. Here is the problem, I don’t want to wait and see. I want to know now. I want to get it right on my first try. I don’t want to try something and find out it isn’t for me. Perhaps you can relate to the sentiment.
So I plan, and unplan, and replan my future waiting for a eureka! moment. The moment when I succeed in cracking the code to my destiny and discovering the blueprint of my life’s course. Alas, I am a mere mortal. A human being with no power to know the full picture of my life. Only God can do that, and luckily for me, He loves me and will continue to guide me along the right paths if only I would trust Him. If only, I would let go of control. This is easier said than done for Type-A law students.
Instead of projecting myself into the future, I know I need to be present and just enjoy my time at Allard. With the stress I had been feeling at school, I often daydreamed about studying abroad as an escape mechanism to ignore my emotions and stresses. I would think about how great life would be if I could spend a year abroad. I eventually had to admit that even if I went abroad right now, I could just as easily start daydreaming about something else whenever things got tough. I would never enjoy the precious moments in my life if I refused to be present.
So after almost one and a half years of being in law school, I decided to be intentional about enjoying the rest of my time here. Seizing opportunities and putting myself out there more. Talking to people, and trying new things. These are often things we need to make an intentional effort to do, or else time will just pass us by. I have a wonderful opportunity that not everyone gets. I am at one of the nation’s top law schools. There’s a diverse array of interesting people to meet here. And—although it doesn’t always feel like it—I have more free time on my hands than I would if I had a full-time job. Being in school is a HUGE BLESSING!
Feeling Seen
One of the required readings for the class was Chapter 1 of Lawyering from the Inside Out by Nathalie Martin. The chapter is entitled, “Gaining Self-Awareness” and in it, I came across this passage:
“Do not worry at all if you are not quite sure what kind of law you’d like to practice. You will find your way. Randi McGinn, journalist turned trial lawyer and author of the book, Changing Laws, Changing Lives, attended law school to get more publishers to read and publish her freelance journalism stories, and to improve her notoriety and her chances of being published in national news outlets, not to become a lawyer.”7
The notion of going to law school with no intention of actually becoming a practicing lawyer resonated with me a lot, so I decided I wanted to learn more about Ms. McGinn. I looked her up and came across her website. Her “About” section stated the following:
“Trials are won and cases are settled based on who tells the best story. Having started out as a journalist, Randi McGinn is a consummate storyteller. From the pile of facts that is your case, she reaches in and pulls out the beating heart of your story. She is famous for her creativity in the courtroom and use of both high- and low-tech demonstrative evidence to help the jury see and understand what happened. She has utilized powerful animations, life-size human blowups, persuasive PowerPoint presentations, toy cars and trucks, and three-dimensional models of roadways and a mountain hillside to re-create accidents in the courtroom.” [emphasis added]8
I was completely intrigued. I do not think I had ever heard trial lawyers’ work described this way. Sure some people had made general comments about how court was similar to the stage, and how there are many transferrable skills between actors and lawyers. Yet, Randi McGinn’s bio was my first glimpse at a real-life example of lawyering from a heart of storytelling. Riveted, I did more research on Ms. McGinn and finally came upon an interview she did. In it, she expanded on this idea of trial lawyering as storytelling.
“So I get to law school and I find out that it was the place I was meant to be, because isn’t trial work storytelling on steroids? I mean it really is, you get to do all the things that you did as a journalist. Collect all the facts from this giant steaming pile of facts. You reach in and you sort of pull out the heart of the story, and then it’s almost like a sort of verbal alchemy. That if you can tell somebody’s story truly and well, you can turn it into justice can’t you? And you there is nothing better than that. And you don’t just write the story, but you produce it, and you star in it, and you direct it, and so, it’s the best kind of storytelling of all.” [emphasis added]9
Justice via storytelling. If I can tell someone’s story truly and well I can turn it into justice. These are words that I think will stick with me for the rest of my life. There is something about them that just makes sense to me. Reading Randi McGinn’s story, and listening to her interview has made me feel seen in a way that nothing else in law school has been able to do yet. I felt like I had met someone who spoke the same language. A person who had woven a beautiful tapestry between law and story, and knew how to articulate what she had done. A person who had the words I did not know I had been struggling to find. I feel inspired and hopeful. If Randi could weave such a tapestry, I will too. I will find my way.
My Ideal Professional Life
To conclude, I would like to describe what I think my ideal professional life would be. I may not yet know the specifics of what I want to practice, but I do know the values I want reflected in my work.
I want my work to reflect Christian values and glorify God.
This requires honesty and integrity in every aspect of my work.
I also want to love and edify others through my work, not harm them.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” — Galatians 5:22 (NIV)
I want my work to have a meaningful impact in the lives of others.
I want the legal services I provide to be people-centred. I genuinely want to solve problems, and help people.
I want to have a deep connection with my team/colleagues.
I want to trust and love those I work with, I want us to be able to lean on one another for support.
I want us to be comfortable enough to be honest with one another and hold each other accountable.
I desire diversity in the work I do.
I want to engage in work that provides me with some novelty. Instead of doing the same thing over and over again, I appreciate getting to work on different projects.
I value having autonomy over the type of work I choose to do and my time.
I never want to be pressured to do work that compromises my values or violates my conscience, I want the autonomy to say “no” to certain files.
I want autonomy over my time so I can be a holistic human being outside of work. This way I can invest in my spiritual life, relationships and other endeavours.
When the time comes, I want to be a present mother. I want to be there for my kids, even if it means I need to cut the amount of work I do—or leave entirely.
In the abstract of “Does legal education have undermining effects on law students? Evaluating changes in motivation, values, and well-being” Kennon M. Sheldon and Lawrence S. Krieger state the following,
“We evaluated changes in subjective well-being (SWB), motivation, and values occurring over the law-student career. In study 1, law students began with levels of SWB higher than a comparison sample of undergraduates, but by the end of the first year their SWB had plummeted. These changes were correlated with the sample-wide decreases in intrinsic motivation over the first year, and were also correlated with increases in appearance values and decreases in community service values. Those with the most intrinsic motivations attained the highest grades, but, ironically, high grades in turn predicted shifts in career preferences towards "lucrative" and higher-stress law careers, and away from "service"-oriented and potentially more satisfying law careers. The declines persisted over the second and third years of law school. In study 2, the basic effects were replicated for a different sample of first-year students at a different law school.”10
I hope that by writing my core values here, I will be able to revisit this write-up over the years and remember what was most important to me as a law student. I do not want to forget who I am and replicate a shift from intrinsic to extrinsic motivations. I understand how many law students fall into that trap, I felt the same alluring pull during the OCI/structured recruitment process. During the week of in-firm interviews, we were wined and dined; shown around beautiful downtown office buildings; and told that we would get to work on interesting and challenging cases. We were told that we would have unparalleled resources at our disposal to help us do excellent work, and nurture our professional development.
I went from thinking that a corporate environment was NOT for me, to really wanting to work at a Big Law firm. I went from “not caring” whether I got a job or not, to feeling scared that I would not be given a job offer. The sudden change was insane. I would be lying if I said that there isn’t something about law school that makes you lean towards prestige, and external validation over intrinsic values. I almost navigated the OCI/structured recruitment process based on who I thought I should be as a lawyer, not based on who I truly was. If it were not for the grace of God, my support system and wise counsel, I would have ended up at a law firm for the wrong reasons.
When I am tempted to forget what matters most, I hope this write-up will serve as a small reminder to get me back on track again.
Written with love,
Elsie Abang
A Note to Christian Law Students:
There is a national Canadian organization called the Christian Legal Fellowship (CLF), that has literally changed my life! It is a community of Christian lawyers, judges, legal professionals and law students from all over Canada who support one another and shine the light of Christ in the legal field. I attended their week-long Christian Legal Institute (CLI) after my first year of law school and it was like drinking water after months spent in the desert. We got to learn about the law from a Biblical perspective, we got to ask Christian lawyers how they live out their faith in practice, and we learned to defend the faith and stand for justice. It was so inspiring and I got to meet fellow Christian law students who remain good friends of mine. I would recommend the experience to every Christian law student.
They also have an annual National Conference and an annual Student Conference. The details for the Student Conference happening on February 13-16th 2025, can be found here. There are also CLF student chapters all over the country, if you are in law school or even in undergrad but interested in law school, I encourage you to get connected with a student chapter near you! You can watch a video about the CLF Student Ministries here, and a video about the CLI here. If you would like to learn more, feel free to email me at elsieabang@gmail.com.
If you are in the USA there is the Christian Legal Society. In the UK there is the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. In Nigeria, there is the Christian Lawyer’s Fellowship of Nigeria. I do not know much about these organizations but they seem to be a great place to get connected to a Christian legal community if you live in these countries. There is also an international Legal Aid organization called Advocates International that may be able to get you connected to Christian lawyers in your nation if you live elsewhere. God bless you fellow law student, and I wish you all the best! 💙
References
B. Buchanan & J.C. Coyle, “National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being: Creating a Movement To Improve Well-Being in the Legal Profession”, American Bar Association, (14 August 2017) at p 7.
Pro Se Nation, “Can Lawyers Be Peacemakers” (17 June 2016).
Integrative Law Movement, “What is Integrative Law?” (n.d.) https://www.integrativelaw.com/what-is-integrative-law/.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Pro Se Nation, “Can Lawyers Be Peacemakers” (17 June 2016) at 00:18:26.
N. Martin, “Gaining Self-Awareness” in Lawyering from the Inside Out: Learning Professional Development through Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence, (Cambridge University Press, 2018) at p 12.
McGinn, Montoya, Love, Curry and Sievers, “About Randi McGinn” (n.d) https://www.mcginnlaw.com/attorneys/randi-mcginn/.
Hawkline Video, “Randi McGinn, Esq. | Full-length Titans of Trial Interview| TLU Live Las Vegas 2022” (2022).
K.M. Sheldon & L.S. Krieger, “Does legal education have undermining effects on law students? Evaluating changes in motivation, values, and well-being” (2004) 22:2 Behavioral Sciences & the Law at p 261.
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