Week in Insights: Focusing on What Really Matters

I’m often asked what I like best about being a lawyer.

The truth is, I don’t always love being a lawyer.

When I was a little girl, I watched “Perry Mason” reruns with my grandfather. It made up, at the time, my entire understanding of the legal profession—I didn’t really know any lawyers, and no one in my family had ever been to college, much less law school. But one of the things that appealed to me was that no matter how dire, how dramatic, there was ultimately justice.

And when I went to law school, I was ...