'A lot of people I went to law school with were fired up about public practice, but they had more debt than I did,' she said.
No one in law school even knew about public practice, she claimed. 
mnli hypothesis: No one in law school even knew about public practice, she claimed.  premise: 'A lot of people I went to law school with were fired up about public practice, but they had more debt than I did,' she said.