I began my legal career as a debt collection attorney at a debt collection law firm, then in a law firm that mostly did in-house counsel for Tribes. Those firms made millions of dollars off the backs of people who got in tight spots. The second firm was mostly transactional, billing time for legal services.  Every day I was unhappy in both. In the first firm, I would come in and speak to people in debt and struggling to make ends meet, I would do what I could to assist them to get out from under this financial and emotional burden, but knowing that they would most likely be back under it. At the second firm I ended up doing wills for Tribal members, assisting with probate cases , family cases, and general counsel work for the Tribal leadership. This was not why I went to law school. I went to law school to raise, not just myself, but the community as whole up. This was a big disconnect for me because I was not really serving those I was trying to help so much as putting band-aids on arterial bleeding.