first of all both my father and my

mother are attorneys

so that may have had something to do

with it

but i will tell you that there was

there’s a different answer which is i

remember something in high school

actually i was reading about

in rome they had

people who knew the law and therefore

had

greater place in society

and then there were people who didn’t

know the law and that separated them and

that um prejudiced them in society they

quite it was a caste system based upon

knowledge of

the law

so i found that very interesting and i

found that it really turned out to be

true to a certain extent that even

knowing what your rights are knowing

what the law is you know they say

knowledge is power

knowing

you know what is possible knowing what’s

not possible

really is very empowering

and it’s nice to be able to help people

and impart that knowledge

and experience with other people

i am a

certified matrimonial law attorney i’ve

been practicing 30 years incidentally i

don’t know where the time went but in

any event a board-certified attorney is

someone who has

made application to to be that person to

be

certified by the supreme court as

essentially an expert in the area of

matrimonial law which subsumes all areas

of family law

and what you need to be qualified are a

number of things you need

recommendations of colleagues

you need recommendations of judges

you need to have a number of

trials

you need to have

to have passed tests it’s quite an

onerous process

but the

the real where really where the rubber

hits the road let’s just say

is that you really need to have the

confidence

of your colleagues and of judges

because the supreme court takes that

very seriously um and they read what

your colleagues will write about you and

they read what

judges will write about you and then of

course there’s just the experience which

is invaluable you know you don’t

you can’t try a case until you’ve tried

a case

you know you have to have

experience you have to know what you’re

doing there’s nothing like experience