{"id":64,"date":"2019-05-28T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/?p=64"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:07:54","slug":"course-rigor-and-careers-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/2019\/05\/28\/course-rigor-and-careers-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Rigor and Careers in Law &#8211; Eva Lauer &#8217;14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed by Sophia Gourley \u201819<\/p>\n<p><strong>SG<\/strong>: What have you done since leaving Trinity? This could be work-related, career-related, family-related\u2026 really whatever you want to share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EL<\/strong>: I went to law school at the University of Florida. I graduated in December of 2016 and I took the bar that spring. Then I went back in the summer of 2017 and did my LLM in taxation, which is like a Master\u2019s in Law. I just graduated in May of 2018 so I\u2019ve been practicing law since then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SG<\/strong>: Congratulations! Is there anything that you learned at Trinity that you feel has been really helpful during your career?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/files\/2019\/05\/eva-lauer-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/files\/2019\/05\/eva-lauer-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/files\/2019\/05\/eva-lauer.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>EL<\/strong>: I think just generally spending the time there and having the professors give you real feedback on all of your writing really helped with my writing in law school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SG<\/strong>: What would you say is your proudest accomplishment since graduating Trinity?<\/p>\n<p><strong>EL<\/strong>: Definitely finishing law school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SG<\/strong>: Are there any important milestones that you would like Trinity should be aware of? Besides, of course, graduating from law school?<\/p>\n<p><strong>EL<\/strong>: Graduating law school is the big one. I also recently bought a condo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SG<\/strong>: Would you say your political science major helped you get to where you want to be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>EL<\/strong>: I had a couple of professors in the poli sci department that were really good. A lot of the political science courses are writing intensive, and having to write so many papers and getting my professors&#8217; feedback prepared me for law school. During exam season, you do a lot of writing, so the better you write, the better you do in law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed by Sophia Gourley \u201819 SG: What have you done since leaving Trinity? This could be work-related, career-related, family-related\u2026 really whatever you want to share. EL: I went to law school at the University of Florida. I graduated in December of 2016 and I took the bar that spring. Then I went back in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2584,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[34,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/bantamstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}