Why did you become an attorney? – Giancarlo Cellini

My mom’s a physician assistant and she went to school late in life when I was already a kid, and I used to go with her to class and stuff like that. And I really always had this idea that I was gonna be some sort of medical professional. If you’d asked me when I was literally six,  I would’ve said I wanna be a cardiothoracic surgeon. And in college I started taking just sort of some basic credits in community college and eventually wanted to transfer those credits to either medical school or nursing school. I was driving to the school that I was applying to to drop off a set of transcripts and got turned around, and stopped to ask for directions. There was a gentleman there who had a connection to sort of my family back when and a very small school that I went to in Fort Lauderdale. We got to talking, and the school was just implementing a new legal studies program, and by the time we were done having a conversation about it, I thought to myself, oh, this sounds really interesting. This, for undergraduate, was a lot of philosophy courses in psychology courses, which I was really interested in. So, on a whim, I handed him my transcripts. I filled out an application in his office at that time, and he wrote my acceptance letter. I wanna say it was a week or two later, I started the Legal Studies Program at Nova Southeastern University.