>> If you want to be an SSNDI a lot of people will take criminology classes, forensic type,
forensic science type classes, because they connect well
into what we do, because it's all criminal law.
That's the total focus.
When you get to law school it's not just going to all criminal law.
That's not how it works.
You'll have, like I said, the whole spectrum.
But if you're interested in criminology and those type of classes, this might be the pathway
that you end up taking or any mock trial experience that you can get prior to being
in the job is absolutely helpful.
Anything that you can do to that gets you public speaking, and more comfortable with that,
because every day that I'm speaking to groups of people in one way, shape or form,
so you've got to get comfortable with that.
Being able to connect with people is a huge part.
When you put together a trial, and you're standing in front of a room,
you've got the judge, you've got the defendant, you got the defense attorney,
but you've picked 12 people, 12 jurors to try
to have them decide the fate of what you're about to put on.
And if you can't connect with them and deliver the message to them in a commonsense way
that they can understand it, there's really, there's no point in you being there [laughs]
if you're not going to be able to communicate that message to them.
So being a good storyteller helps, but that connection
with people is definitely an important part of our job.