An Open Letter to the Lawyers of Tomorrow

• Author: John P. Box Jr.
• Pages: 157-161

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EPILOGUE

An Open Letter to the Lawyers of Tomorrow

This is an open letter to all the lawyers of tomorrow. It’s for all the bright,

young, idealistic legal minds who believe in law’s nobility, its ability to

make equals of all people, and its role in creating and protecting a free

and democratic society. You know much of my story as a lawyer. But I am

also interested in your story, the arc of your career path, and the future of

our shared profession. I encourage you to use this book as a road map to

plot the direction of your career. In a way, I have provided the ingredients

that I believe, based upon empirical research and my personal experience,

will improve intergenerational harmony and efficiency at law firms.

However, these ingredients are for you to create your own vision and

chart the course of your own career. The legal profession is changing,

and your experiences will not mirror mine precisely. Author-philosopher

Pico Iyer once said of the Buddha:

He always took pains to tell people he was no more than an

experimenter, doing nothing that the rest of us could not do;

his aim was simply that of a doctor at a sickbed, eager to find

an immediate solution to the problem at hand, without claim-

ing his was the only or even the best solution. By speaking,

as he often did, of a “path,” he was saying, in effect, that we

could always go further, that everything was in a constant state

of flux and that all he was doing was showing the way so that

others could take it in new directions.1

1. P I, T O R: T G J   F D L 10–11 (2008).

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