“This is not just a practice area. It is some of the most consequential legal work that exists. People’s families. People’s futures. People’s safety. The clients who come to us are not abstractions. They are real, and the outcomes are real, and the way we do this work matters.

Do it well. Do it with care. And never forget that on the other side of every file, on both sides of the desk, there is a human being.”