So please as you go forward, make time in your life to give something back to your profession and your community. Take a pro bono case. Join a bar association committee. Volunteer at the homeless shelter. Make a donation to the United Way.
Great lawyers leave their profession better than they found it.
Great lawyers leave their communities better than they found them. A second lesson is that we need to keep our lives in perspective. Life is fragile and sometimes fleeting. Too often it is cut short before its time. So don t waste it.