If you told my junior high and high school teachers that I grew up to become a lawyer, they’d probably laugh at you and question what sort of mind-altering substance you had taken that day.

To say I was not the most motivated student in my teen years would be a significant understatement.

I was more concerned about having fun, making people laugh, and having extended lunches on school days at friends’ houses playing “Halo,” “Gears of War,” and all other manner of mid-2000s video game classics through the afternoon class periods.

I was also the kid that sometimes did his homework and then didn’t bother to turn it in. Even calling in some favors from the attendance lady at our school, I still had to go to a session or two of “Saturday School” to graduate from high school.

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