Kudos to IntLawGrrls' own Marjorie Florestal (left), whose smiling face jumped out at me on reading this month's edition of the ABA Journal.Why?
Well, for her essay titled, simply, "Why?"
The Journal 's Board of Editors selected Marjorie's essay over nearly 200 others that sought to answer this question: "Why do you believe the legal profession is the greatest profession in the world?"
To answer, Marjorie draws readers back to her childhood, to a hot day in the tiny kitchen of her apartment in New York City:
'Why?' my father finally asked.
Family legend has it that I responded, 'Because I want to be the international Thurgood Marshall.'
Marjorie concludes -- here's a hint without a giveaway of the ending -- by
offering a "why" to that "why." Full essay's here.In addition to having her essay published, Marjorie won a $5,000 prize in the essay contest, which, as the Journal explains, is "supported by a trust established in the 1930s by the late Judge Erskine M. Ross of Los Angeles" (right).
Heartfelt congratulations!
