Before coming to law school, you were probably driven by legal ambition, sure, but also by a desire to learn, a desire to love, a desire to make the world a better place, a desire to make friends, and the desire to simply be happy.
I have never faced criticism for the way I dress, and I would argue that having your own style is no barrier to achieving legal ambitions.
Jim Wadia, Arthur Andersen's senior partner and a tax specialist, recalls European bewilderment at his firm's inability to provide legal advice.Now all the Big Five have soaring legal ambitions.
The negotiations tackle four principal issues: legal form, ambition, assistance to developing countries, and rules and institutions.
Over 70 other countries now have similar legislation and, more importantly, the UK's legal framework only encourages ambition from others if it is backed up by robust action.
These have ranged from the formal scrapping of capital punishment in five states since 2007 (at one end of the scale of ambition), to legal manoeuvres to block executions by mounting technical challenges to the cocktails of drugs used to kill convicts by lethal injection, at the other.
The enlargement commissioner, Stefan Füle, says Turkey should consult the EU before changing the judiciary's legal status.Turkey's European ambitions go back as far as 1959.
Beyond his obvious drive and ambition, neither his legal nor his political career was to be hampered by Owen's physical presence.
But nobody did, in fact, follow their pioneering route, at least not on anything like the same scale.The only proximate followers were the big accounting firms which had ambitions to build legal practices as global as their accounting businesses.
"They ought to have the same rights," said Don Nickles, a former Republican senator from Oklahoma who in 2004 introduced legislation that would have established that children born abroad to American citizens could harbor presidential ambitions without a legal cloud over their hopes.
Years later, when she graduated college, her ambitions sank into legal limbo, her future suspended indefinitely as she lacked the papers she needed to start a career.
