Welcome!

Welcome to my first foray into the world of blogging. I have noticed how helpful and prevalent blogging in during the course of my academic career, and think its a great way to get my name out there in the legal community.

A little about me:

I am 31 yrs old and have a little more on my plate then your average law student. We (my partner and I) have car payments, a mortgage and a small clump of other debts. Plus, not only am I in school, but I finally got his tail back in school as well.

I will begin law school at the end of May. I have to admit, this is not where I pictured myself when I was younger. In fact, law was something I saw as completely out of my reach. I, like many people unfamiliar with the law, thought that to be an attorney you needed to be able to rattle off statutes, case decisions and the like. I didn't look at law as a viable choice for a career until I became a paralegal major. Of course, once I went further in my paralegal schooling, law school seemed like a natural next step for me.

I hope to open my own practice when I graduate law school. I have never been one who was happy working for others. I am independent, opinionated and work best when its my name on the line. Of course my problem right now is deciding what areas of law to focus on. I am mainly interested in Intellectual Property, Alternative Family/Gay Rights Law, Business Law and Real Estate, but every day in class or while surfing the net, I find 10 more practice areas that sound challenging. How is one to decide?

Topics I want to have in this blog: being a non-traditional law student, exploring various practice areas, law school itself, ideas for solo practice and the like.