Enrico SchaeferFouning Attorney, Litigator and Ousdie Counsel - IP, Tech, TRAVERSE LEGAL, PLC · Founding Partner @ TRAVERSE LEGAL, PLC | AI, Blockchain, Social Media, Internet

My Unbelievable Journey to Becoming an AI Evangelist and Power User of AI in My Law Practice.

28 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this opening segment, Enrico Schaefer recounts his unlikely path to becoming a lawyer despite a childhood certainty that he would never follow his father's profession. He describes how he nearly dropped out of college, yet went on to graduate at the top of his law school class, breaking records and earning unprecedented awards. Schaefer then details his rapid rise through big‑law firms, his shift into high‑stakes mass‑tort asbestos litigation, and the luxurious symbols of his early success—private‑plane travel and limousine rides—achieved all before turning thirty.

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I had once only known one real certainty about my future when I was young, when I was very young, and that was that I would never be a lawyer. My dad was a lawyer. My older brother wanted to be a lawyer. It just wasn't an option. I didn't want to be my dad. I knew I would never be a lawyer. It's the only thing I knew. And yet I became precisely that, though not by any predictable path. I went from a near college dropout to graduating first in my class from law school, breaking records and winning more awards than any student in the history history of the school. So I went from a nobody to a somebody. I surged through the ranks of big law, transitioned into plainicide, mass tort asbestos cases, flew on private planes, traveled by limousine waiting at the landing strip. And this is all by the age of 30.