For the first time since 2008, I am not working with the legislature. It also marks the first year since 2007 in which I am not actively practicing law. In some ways, my career change may not be surprising because I rarely heap praise on the legal profession. My critique most often grows not from what the profession is, but from its unmet potential. A lawyer’s training in reason and logic is most certainly fallible, but it is also critical for a nation of laws to work wisely.