In Her Own Words: Dominique Shelton Leipzig’s legal legacy

Mentorship means many things to different people, but for Dominique Shelton Leipzig, the presence of legal role models at home and in the classroom made all the difference in her career. I knew I wanted to be a lawyer at a very young age. My father started law school when I was around five years old, my mother had studied law in Haiti before pursuing her doctorate in the US, and her father, my grandfather, was a distinguished attorney in Haiti before that. When I was about nine years old,...