What they don’t teach in law school

Meet a reader, access to justice, and a new idea. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Something a bit different today.

I’d like you to meet a reader, Fred Rooney. We never talked before I began writing newsletters, and haven’t actually met in person, but we’ve had quite a few really interesting conversations over the last few months.

Fred is a lawyer, Fulbright Scholar, and — well, I’m going to let him tell you his story.

Actually, I helped a bit in the telling, so this is an “as told to” story: “By Fred Rooney, as told to Bill Murphy Jr.”

I’ve said before that the audience of Understandably is a really diverse, interesting group. It’s been a bit of a white whale for me, to figure out how to do something to leverage that, and introduce some of you to each other.

Let’s call today’s installment an experiment, and part of that effort. Here’s Fred’s story: