“I don’t know where I could have gone in Seattle to get the same experience, in terms of the sheer number of cases I’ve been a part of and the number of bail hearings I’ve handled,” he said of his most recent internship. “When you get thrown into the deep end, you learn to swim very fast.”
Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Alaska’s nickname. Also, a term in a quote by Alaska Supreme Court Justice Dana Fabe has been changed from “Native Alaskans” to “Alaska Natives,” the accurate term for indigenous people.
