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Starting out, what did you expect from a career in law? I went to law school because I wanted to be a public interest lawyer. I thought that someday I would love to be a law professor. I have been incredibly fortunate in that I have had the chance to do both. For the last 32 years, I have been a law professor, but also have regularly handled pro bono appellate cases.

I have tremendously enjoyed every aspect of my career. I was incredibly fortunate and got hired to be an Assistant Professor at DePaul College of Law in , just two years after I graduated law school. I was in the right place at the right time. Being a law professor has been a truly wonderful career. It is clearly a much tougher market.

Focusing on legal academia, it is vastly more competitive and harder to get teaching jobs than it used to be. The dramatic increase in faculty candidates with PhDs and having done Visiting Assistant Professorships makes it a far more difficult market.

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As for lawyers, it is still an economic downturn from what it was, but there are always jobs for excellent lawyers. But we are still building it and so it is premature to say that is yet an 'achievement'. What I have loved most in my career is the teaching and I am proud of what so many of my former students have accomplished. I have lost some cases that haunt me.