Many children dubbed talkative, or those often reprimanded for “talking back” to their parents, are told they would make a good attorney. If they like the idea, and maybe start enjoying TV courtroom dramas as a young adult, they may claim that aspiration and hold on to it through college, dreaming of law school. But how many get to really try out that career while still in grade school?
Stephanie Zapata Moore did. Long before she was vice president and general counsel at Luminant, the Dallas-based competitive power generator, Moore said her mother told her nine-year-old self she was so argumentative she should be a lawyer. Ever since, any opportunity to do something lawyer-related I jumped at,” Moore said. “Like Teen Court in Tampa, where high school students worked cases with petty offenses—actual cases, like alcohol possession and truancy—all administered by the local juvenile court.”
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