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To Litigate or not to Litigate?
To Litigate or not to Litigate?
- What is law?
- What are the specific aspects of legal issues that interest me?
- What do I believe my talents to be such that I am attracted to the answer to #2?
- Where did I get the idea that I would be successful at legal practice?
- My idea?
- Someone else's?
- Is my ambition to pursue a legal career a function of 4b or because I never really thought about what to do with my talents other than _____________________________________________ ?
- What is my genuine motivation for pursuing the courses I elected as an undergraduate?
- Is there a direct relationship between what I chose to study and #2?
- If so, why can't I directly relate the definition and the achievement of my academic goals to my ambition to pursue legal studies and ultimately to have a legal career?
- What extra-curricular experiences induced me to seriously consider pursuing a legal career?
- Given what I am inclined to think about, why does it always come to pass that I am inclined to engage in the conceptual analysis of principles of social organization: and the application thereof?
- Even though I am interested in social contracts, why am I inclined to literally practice problems of the resolution of conflicting rights, such that I firmly believe I would be good at litigation?
- Compare #2 and #3 - what is my motivation for putting up with all this - is it fear or do I really just like doing this stuff?
- Let's suppose that I intend to go through law school in order to become an attorney. Let's also suppose that it does not matter how I dress or where I work. What would I prefer to be doing while I work? What do I think I'll actually be doing while I'm at work?
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