The Connecticut Bar Examining Committee recently released the names of the applicants who passed the February 2013 Bar Examination. This year, there also will be graduates from the state’s three law schools University of Connecticut, Quinnipiac and Yale seeking to join the ranks of the legal profession in Connecticut. For those of us who have been practicing for a while and those who will be practicing soon, this is an opportune moment to remind ourselves why the practice of law matters and how we must remain committed to practicing it well every day.
Over a century ago, in an 1897 Harvard Law Review article, entitled, "The Path of the Law," Oliver Wendell Holmes described the purpose behind the study of law this way:
