Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow to the Class of 2014:
“Can you create for your colleagues, collaborators, and clients a gathering place joining people from across differences? Can you create safe spaces to examine challenging problems? You will need to earn the trust of others. How? It helps by being trustworthy. Can you converse with others on their journeys even when they are adversaries or competitors? Can you create a station away from the mess that brings clients to you? Can you offer sympathetic ears and attention and enough of a common language to enable you to understand the world views of others, and to help them understand yours? Can you brainstorm options and open new doors or return home to see it anew? Can you strengthen others by listening, by taking apart problems and opportunities layer by layer in the landscape of law, business, and non-profits transforming in this globalizing time. If you can, then the rule of law, insights from the past, and imagination of the future will afford magic and meaning for you and for those you assist.”
I can’t wait to start learning from her and other great legal minds.