Twenty years ago today I took the oath. After four years of college, three years of law school, the bar exam, this was the day. But as I mentioned yesterday, my ceremony was rather unremarkable and unmemorable. And I’ve been through several admittance ceremonies: Massachusetts was cool, taking the oath in Federal Court in Boston was something I remember, and the US Supreme Court was totally memorable. But after I passed the Connecticut bar exam and got admitted, the ceremony was so lame that I almost felt bad that my mom and my brother schlepped all the way out from the Cape to see it. So it’s not my ceremony but my friend Nancy’s, who was sworn in a few days after me, that I remember most. That’s what I want to share with you.
Posts Tagged ‘The 20-5 Series’
20/5: This journey started 20 years ago tomorrow
Monday, December 6th, 2010
Tomorrow at about 10:00 am will mark 20 years. It was on December 7, 1990 that I was first sworn in as an attorney. I remember being totally pumped the night before… knowing that when I went to bed tomorrow night, I would be the attorney I had spent so many years preparing to be.
Hope is a 4-Letter Word
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Many have read media reports that decry HAMP (the Obama Administration’s purported “response” to the foreclosure crisis) and proclaim it is as lipstick on a pig. After two years have watching clients struggle in this program and few coming up with anything meaningful, I want to go on record as saying this:
HAMP is not only lipstick on a pig, but it’s continued existence only puts more light on the political impotence and the bankruptcy of leadership on both Beacon Hill and Capital Hill.
20/5 Redux: A Table Saw Crosses the Road
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
20/5: New Haven
Friday, July 30th, 2010
It was twenty years ago this week that I put down two days of food for Annie & Cissie (my cats), and packed up my sad navy blue Ford Escort for what would be a long and life changing trip to the Elm City. Twenty years ago this week, I sat for the Connecticut bar exam. I took the Connecticut exam because I believed – during a time when the economy was lousy – that I, as a graduate of Western New England College School of Law in Springfield would have a far better chance of landing a job in the Constitution/Nutmeg state than competing with unemployed graduates and recently displaced attorneys in either Boston or New York. I was right. Sort of. That however, is for another day.
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 20/5
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
I’ve been blogging here for almost five years. I’ve been trying to find a fitting way to mark that anniversary. But 2010 is not only the 5 year anniversary of this blog – and of my venture into on-line writing, education, regurgitating and at times postulating. It’s also the 20 year anniversary of my becoming an attorney. And since blogging is a form of “social media”, it got me thinking…
The whole “social media” thing that people talk, consult and some even obsess about: The Twittering. The Facebooking. The Blogging. Isn’t it really just another way of being “out there” and “being seen?” Yes – it is. “Being seen” has really has evolved since I started blogging.