I became a lawyer because I wanted to represent regular people who needed a voice and I wanted to provide a source of strength and comfort to people who had been injured or hurt and weren’t able to advocate for themselves. And I thought that becoming a plaintiff lawyer, a personal injury lawyer, would provide that avenue.
I come from a long line of lawyers, and so the idea of being someone else’s advocate was a big part of growing up in my family. When I got out of college, I really wasn’t sure exactly what I was going to do with my career. Multiple members of my family had done different kinds of law and practiced different kinds of law. But I decided early on that I wanted to be basically a personal injury lawyer.
And I discovered this particular niche—sex abuse—and pretty quickly discovered that within the legal world, there was really no better way to do that. And there was no other practice area that I thought would motivate me to get up and go to work every day like sex abuse litigation. So pretty quickly I decided early on, even before I got out of law school, that this was how I was going to spend the rest of my career.
