Tala Ismail’s passion for the law began in middle school, when she played an attorney “just like the ones on TV” in the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s Law Adventure mock trial program for seventh and eighth graders.

It was fun and, “most importantly, it allowed me to see that it wasn’t some unattainable goal,” said Ismail, now a graduate assistant in the law and governance program at Montclair State University. “It was something real and within my reach if I just worked at it.”

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