Law in Contemporary Society

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Interviews and Rationales

-- By ElizabethBrandt - 18 Feb 2016

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 Every interview will still require me to play the part of Thinking Man and make up my best transcendental nonsense with which to convince the interview of the inevitability of our meeting. There’s no getting around the performance art of the interview. I’ll leave out the story about my grandfather for risk of sounding more emotional than a good Thinking Man should. I’m sure I’ll even enjoy some of the conversations that I have with interviewers, but answering this question will probably never be one of those enjoyable moments for me. Maybe one time I’ll feel non-conformist enough to tell the interviewer to bugger off because it’s, frankly, none of their business.
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Part of the transcendental nonsense, to start with, is that the mock interview is training you to participate in other mock interviews. The ones you are thinking about are conducted by organizations seeking to hire workers. To be such a lawyer is already to have made certain choices. When I and my law partner, SFLC's legal director, hire lawyers, or when I decide to take students on who will become our lawyers, the interview has no such shape. We are hiring people we intend to work with directly, people with whom we two ourselves will actually be practicing. Such a conversation to elicit such a narrative is not helpful, let alone worth the time.

So everybody performs an unimaginative work that they have learned to do both sides of, but which is not the thing itself, which is something that has to be invented every time people meet in order to decide whether to have a relationship. Those skills, too, have fallen into such peculiar desuetude that people now try to establish using the computers that spy on them whether they are mutually attracted by such artificial narratives before they permit themselves to meet and to begin to perform their LinkedIn or Facebook profile, as the case of dating may be, as best they can under the disadvantage of presence as well as absence, also known as reality.

So you came to law school both in order to be a lawyer and to have a way of life that has meaning for good or ill in the society around you. Which means learning to bend reality by being fully present in it, rather than by making artificial "profiles" that abstract nicely from it and that can be packaged and promoted for sale to others the way every other commodity that has no effect on its society is sold.

This is a fine first draft, in that it clears the space for the excellent construction that comes next. You can now ask, what does it actually take in realistic terms both to escape the performance of these falsities and to continue moving swiftly and efficiently towards the sort of fully-involved life in the community you want to have? Thinking about that leads to planning and execution about that, which is better than all the successful performances of the profile of what you do not quite want in all the world.

 
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