Law is one of the most important professions in our world. Attorneys work to protect your rights, your dignity, your privacy, your culture and your dreams. So, why not be an attorney?

You can make the choice to go to law school to receive the training that will enable you to have a career that is full of diverse opportunities and exciting work. You can also be a leader in your community, an officer in a major corporation, and can help individuals needing legal assistance so that they can obtain housing or other necessities. You can become a member of this honorable profession that helped form and structure our government and can help to change the world. So, there are many reasons why you should CHOOSE LAW.

There are many reasons why you should CHOOSE LAW. A few of these reasons are listed below.

You Are an Agent for Change

The law can be used for great economic, social, political, intellectual and technological change. Such diverse reformers as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Louis Brandeis, Robert Kennedy, and Thurgood Marshall were attorneys. Attorneys, such as John Adams or James Madison, began the reforms in this country by drafting state constitutions, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, that dramatically increased the rights of individuals and limited the excesses of government.

Attorneys have taken the rights provided in the U.S. Constitution, in state constitutions, and in federal and state law and fought for the expansion of these rights and for their broader application. Civil rights attorneys, such as Thurgood Marshall, used their knowledge of the law and their position as attorneys to challenge racially discriminatory and inequitable laws that existed throughout the country. One example is the U.S. Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education where the Court ruled, with Thurgood Marshall representing the plaintiffs before the Supreme Court, that segregation in schools based upon a child's race was unconstitutional and that separate schools for different races was inequitable and wrong. The legal system has also been used by attorneys to protect minorities' right to vote, to ensure resources are made available to help non-English speakers obtain an education or to participate in important facets of society, and to obtain compensation for Asian Americans that were forcibly relocated to internment camps during World War II. Without an attorney willing to advocate for these core rights, they would not have been preserved and these changes would not have occurred.