-: If they still offer courses,
and it's been a few years since I've been here
but I'm assuming they do.
I know there's been some focus on criminal law,
family law, domestic relations,
doing a clinic is, you know, really very helpful.
When we interview attorneys for a job at Legal Aid
and we see that they've had some clinical experience
representing someone in criminal court or family court,
that's good news because then we know for sure
that they've had some experience with that.
And they have a better idea what they might be getting into.
Yes, so again the clinics are very important,
the internships, so if they interned
with somebody who practices family law,
or interned with somebody who does criminal law,
if they clerked for a judge or did an externship
with a judge in family court or criminal court,
and once again, those clinics.
When you can hear somebody speak of
their desire to fill a gap in our society,
where there are people who are really,
their voices aren't heard,
or their cause is considered not popular, and so
that in their hearts that's what they really wanna do is
I want to be involved in public interest.
And if we as graduates from law school
aren't willing to do that, then that's,
then our whole democracy is in jeopardy.
So somebody enunciating that mission
and just through their other discussions and actions
showing that this is what they wanna do with their lives.