David White is director of the Seton Hall University School of Law Conflict Management Program and professor of legal practice at the school. After joining the school in 2010, White helped launch: the Seton Hall Consumer Arbitration Practicum in tandem with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office; a securities arbitration clinic with federal funding; and the Seton Hall Representation in Mediation Practicum in the Southern District of New York which, more recently, was replicated in the District of New Jersey’s Trenton and Newark vicinages. A colleague said, “To a growing generation of Seton Hall lawyers, Prof. White is both innovator and mentor whose passionate commitment to justice has positively affected lives throughout the region.”

Is the role of mentor one you set out to take, or one you happened into?