The law touches everything so lawyering was an opportunity to be involved in a variety of subjects, to enjoy a curiosity-satiating career while making the world a better place. I believe it’s why so many students continue to flock to law schools despite erosion of the longstanding six-figure-job-first-year-out-of-school mill.

To students hungry for satisfying Renaissance-person employment that uses the many creative talents that getting into and through law school requires, allow me to suggest a career from the menu: food law.

Food lawyers study, use, and create rules to improve the food network. The client can be a chef, the city or federal government, a nonprofit organization, or a farmer. Our work touches every area of law: zoning, contracts, environmental, constitutional, international,