Sarah Jones Krieg DeVault LLP Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2014 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I started my career in public accounting and knew it wasn’t my lifelong dream but really enjoyed the challenging, fast-paced profession and being surrounded by driven and very intelligent professionals. I talked […]
Mary Myers Kroger Gardis & Regas LLP Why did you decide to become a paralegal/legal support staffer? I became interested and fascinated with the legal profession when I was in high school and became focused on working for attorneys. I started my career working in the legal department of a bank a year after graduating […]
Amy Applegate Indiana University Maurer School of Law Harvard Law School, 1981 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I was going to pursue a Ph.D. in romance linguistics, but over the summer before my senior year in college, I was having lunch in a New York City restaurant with my best friend […]
Joel Schumm Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 1998 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Lawyers can and do make a difference — for individual clients and bigger causes. If you hadn’t pursued a legal career, what would you be doing? I […]
Keith Bice Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP Notre Dame Law School, 1998 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I am the first generation in my family to go to college. My dad worked in foundry maintenance and later owned a small business. I learned early in my life that working with my hands […]
Carl Pebworth Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP University of Michigan Law School, 1991 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? After college, I went to work at an advertising agency in Chicago (Head & Shoulders shampoo — “You never get a chance to make a first impression”). Over time, selling soap did […]
Whittley Pike Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2014 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I am the oldest daughter of two small business owners who never went to college. That I earned my bachelor’s degree was in some ways their biggest dream […]
Andrea Townsend Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2013 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I love how the law enables us to enact change, from Capitol Hill to the courtroom. Being a lawyer empowers me to do better — to draft better governing […]
Jacob German Barnes & Thornburg LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 2014 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I grew up in a household of educator parents — my parents were public school teachers. Consequently, early in my life they instilled a lifelong commitment to education and learning. My dad taught […]
Angela Jones The Law Office of Angela M. Jones Stetson University College of Law, 2011 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I had a bizarre experience when I was a fairly young girl. I was at a park and there were some boys killing baby birds with a basketball. It was horrific […]
Rayann Knepley Kids’ Voice of Indiana Why did you decide to become a paralegal/legal support staffer? It was never my intention to become a legal support staffer/paralegal in the beginning. I was a new, young mother looking for employment. An attorney that had represented a family member had just recently lost his legal assistant, and […]
Lacy Johnson Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 1981 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Mine was not a typical path. At the age of 7, I witnessed my father being detained by the police following an incident in our neighborhood. We found ourselves in […]
Chuck Schmal Woodard Emhardt Henry Reeves & Wagner LLP George Mason University School of Law, 1999 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Growing up, I never thought I would be an attorney. Movies and books concerning the law did not interest me. Even a field trip to Center City Philadelphia to watch […]
Judge David Avery Allen Superior Court Valparaiso University School of Law, 1976 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? A combination of having graduated with a B.S. in economics (what could I do with that in the recession in the early-to-mid-1970s?) and having grown up in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when […]
Rachel Woloshin Church Church Hittle & Antrim Duquesne University School of Law, 2012 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I have always had a passion for helping people in their time of need. The legal profession puts you in a unique position to help others with legal issues and impact a life […]
Kathleen Anderson Barnes & Thornburg LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 1992 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I remember wanting to be a teacher in about the first grade, but I otherwise can’t remember wanting to be anything but a lawyer. Maybe I watched too much “L.A. Law” in middle […]
Michael Morris Woodard Emhardt Henry Reeves & Wagner LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 2011 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? Becoming a patent attorney was the perfect marriage between my interests in engineering, science and the law. I had long-planned on becoming an engineer, and while pursuing that path my […]