Ira Leesfield decided to become a lawyer the day he came home to find an eviction notice on his apartment door and his mother sitting on the floor crying.
“I was 15 years old,” he said. “I think that was my first exposure to the legal system and probably the time that I said I never want me or my family to be in a situation like this again. That’s what sort of jumpstarted my legal thinking.”
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