I am an attorney in the Commercial Litigation department of the law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP. As a Commercial Litigator, I deal with a wide variety of business disputes. Specifically, I often deal with issues surrounding credit reporting, professional negligence, employee benefits plans, and international contracts.

At this stage of my career I spend a majority of my time conducting legal research and drafting legal memoranda. Most people assume that mathematics would not be the most appropriate preparation for a person who makes a living engaging in these activities. I would disagree. In fact, I would suggest that my mathematics background has been one of my greatest assets throughout my law school and legal careers and that mathematics will continue to help me develop as a lawyer throughout my career.

In order to succeed as a math major, I always had to engage in logical thought. Whether doing a problem for calculus class or thinking through a proof in real analysis, my mind always had to logically process given information in the context of a controlling mathematical theory.

Although I knew that my mathematics background was an excellent preparation for any career path that I chose, I none the less was concerned upon my entry into law school that I would face greater challenges in learning the law than the majority of my peers who engaged in a large amount of reading and critical writing for majors that were not founded on mathematics.