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Law School Personal Statement

I have gone through enormous challenges in my lifetime, some brought about by external factors and numerous by my own indecisions and bad decisions in life. However, every time I have managed to come out on top and focusing on work seems to have always been the right instrument to pull my through a personal crisis. Despite my Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, obtained in the Fall of 2008, I have always felt that time and life challenges have never given me the appropriate time to spend with my academic career and with learning in general -- at least not to the degree that I wanted to allocate as much time as possible for this segment of my life.

With my career safely assured and with a dedicated course that included promotions in 11 years from quality manager to Director of Quality for three different divisions to Operations Manager for the Medical Division at my company and, eventually, to Operations Manager in charge of two different divisions, I would like to compensate for some of the missed time on my academic development.

This is obviously not the only reason why I would like to enroll in law school. While deciding what the best way to pursue my education would be, I weighed different the different options according to a framework that involved different factors. First of all, the academic challenge was important. I have managed to achieve a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, as mentioned in the previous paragraphs, and this was certainly an intellectual challenge, not only because of the complexity of the subjects involved, but also because I was working at the time and had to manage my time wisely between school and work. Going to law school would bring similar challenges, the one I am most interested in being the intellectual challenge. The courses in law school will definitely be of a different type than what I have encountered in completing my BA in Business Administration and I definitely look forward to this new challenge.

On the other hand, ever since my childhood and adolescent days, when my challenging family environment allowed me to make my own decisions and meant that I received no appropriate guidance, I turned to reading and learning as an alternative to that. I read a lot in high school and I was able to accumulate knowledge and information. The brief stint in learning about engineering concepts and principles, in the Mechanical Engineering program that I followed at Cleveland State in 1999, simply added to that.

I just like accumulating knowledge and my professional career has shown that you never can really know where you will be needing parts of that knowledge: I worked as a machinist for some time, but then I was able to promote because of the additional knowledge I had gained in the meantime. I hope that the education I will receive in law school would help improve my knowledge portfolio to the degree it could offer me more opportunities in the future.

Another reason why I would like to go to law school and pursue a law degree is that I have a fundamental belief in the legal system and its ability to produce justice within our society. In my life, I have had the unfortunate privilege of verifying this statement first hand. Despite this, I believe that every time I was put in such a situation, the legal system functioned irreproachably and I think that being part of this type of system would be an extraordinary accomplishment for me. In that sense, I am committed to putting all my efforts into obtaining a final degree from law school, a degree that will allow me to be integrated in the legal system and to put all my efforts and intellect to good use in order to obtain and implement just decisions.