At the same time, there are thousands of others who decide against law school when lawyering might be one of their most important vocations in life. Every year, thousands of young people go to law school for the wrong reasons--and many of them will become lawyers who will be miserable in their work. In this pithy yet eloquent volume, lawyer and teacher Mark Grannis offers a searching and balanced exploration of this important and consequential fork in the road of so many lives. Drawing on over thirty years as a lawyer as well as his more recent experience as a teacher, Grannis explains what the vocation of lawyering actually demands.