In September, the Justice Access Coalition board did something I had not anticipated.
They asked me to testify before a Senate subcommittee on access to legal representation.
The ask came through Senator Harlow, who had become something of a mentor in the past year. She called me personally.
"You're the right voice for this," she said. "You operate at the intersection of corporate and community legal work in a way that almost nobody in the country currently does. The committee needs to hear from someone who can speak to both."
"I'm not a policy person," I said.
"You're building policy through practice," she said. "That's more useful than theory."
I sat with the request for a week. I talked to Kade. I talked to Killian on a call where he said, without hesitation, "Say yes. Obviously.
