4 | THELAKER from the cover At age 8, LaToya Lee decided she would be an attorney when she grew up. Sort of. A teacher was going around the classroom, asking children about careers. LaToya and a friend were among the last to respond, and they didn’t want to repeat what other kids had said. ey got an idea from “Matlock” and other TV dramas their grandparents watched. “We saw it was getting to us, so we gotta think of something quick. On the y we decided, ‘OK we'll say we want to be attorneys.’” LaToya would use that answer again at Rochester’s John Marshall High School, though it was more of an aspiration to throw around when adults asked. She didn’t dare to believe it herself until Cassy Kent’s Introduction to Legal Practice class at FLCC in fall 2001. ‘IT TRULY ISN’T WHERE YOU STARTED, BUT WHERE YOU END UP’ LaToya Lee ’03 realized over time she had the intellect and drive for a career in law.
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