>> I decided to be a lawyer after undergrad, but knowing that I wanted to go to graduate school.
You know, I had-- you know, whether I wanted to go to graduate school for psychology or law
or medicine I was kind of-- I was taking a year off to try to get, you know,
get my thoughts together and just, you know, decide what I wanted to pursue.
And I started working for a Fortune 500 company that was launching a new product
and I was a customer service representative and some issues came up and I started working
with our legal department to resolve those and that's what, you know, steered me into the law.
Well, the career services office at our law school, you know,
they put out a weekly newsletter, if you will, showing you what employers had interest
in hiring student interns or law clerks and, you know, the very first summer I clerked
with a smaller firm that did civil litigation on the plaintiff side.
They did some defense work, but it was more geared toward plaintiffs work.
Then the next-- the second summer I clerked with the Air Force JAG and the firm I'm
with now, Daniel, Coker, Horton & Bell.
So, I clerked six weeks at Daniel, Coker and then eight weeks with the Air Force JAG.
Then after I, you know, did that, I was offered jobs
with both prior to graduating from law school.