“I’d never thought about going to law school,” Wilson reflects, “but in my job I had used and relied on books of statutes, and I began to realize that the law is all encompassing and governs everything.” Wilson applied to MSU-DCL and was accepted. Arriving on campus, he soon discovered his respect for the law was turning into love of the law—specifically antitrust law. Wilson joined the Law Review staff as well as Moot Court where he later became the student executive director. During the summers, he accumulated as much antitrust experience as possible, first volunteering in the antitrust division of the Michigan attorney general’s office and then interning at the U.S. Department of Justice. That internship, along with a Law Review article last spring, opened the door to an offer of a Justice Department position in Washington, D.C., where he’ll move after taking the Michigan bar exam in July. When asked about his success, Wilson gives credit to others. “Professor Clark Johnson is the big reason I fell in love with the law. He exudes love for the law, and he instilled that in me.” Nor can he say enough about the college’s Reading, Writing and Advocacy program. “If there’s one thing I learned to do well, it was the RWA class,” he says. “Writing is the single most important analytical skill, and I learned so much from this program.” |
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