>> When I was eight years old, my dad went to law school as a second career.
So he was about 38, quit his full-time job,
and went to law school full time day for three years.
And he went to Seton Hall Law.
I lived in central Jersey at the time.
And my days off from school I would go to law school with him.
On my days off I would actually attend law as an 8-year-old, 9-year-old,
and sort of answer rhetorical questions not realizing they were rhetorical.
But I really enjoyed the whole give and take in the classroom, the, the, the,
the questions that were asked, and the important impact that you have on people's lives.
And then when my dad started his own practice in central Jersey,
I worked on Saturdays in his practice.
So even as a young pre-teen through teenagers, just sort of got to see the kind
of lawyer he became in the community and the things that he helped clients with,
and that's the kind of practice, even though I didn't start with my own firm,
that's the kind of practice I always aspired to have.
So I moved to Philadelphia in 1995.
I graduated from Temple Law in 1998, and I chose Temple.
I mean there was really no other place that I wanted to come.
I wanted to go to a law school in a city.
I didn't want to be in New York.
I was from central Jersey.
I wanted to start almost networking when I came to a city because I didn't know anyone
in Philadelphia when I came here, really.
I had an aunt in northeast Philly, but I started my networking back the day I started law school.
And you know, Temple was fantastic to me.
I lived on campus.
I lived right across the street from where we're sitting right now, which no longer exists.
It's now a field and hopefully a stadium someday soon.
And I got very involved with the law school while I was a student,
and I've never not been involved.
I became president of my law alumni association a few years ago, and I've been serving
as an officer of the university alumni association.
I think it's a really, really special place.