Congratulations! You have graduated from law school. You now belong to a distinguished community of legal scholars--they who have transcended beyond the basic duty of every person to simply know the law.
"Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith."
This really means that there is nothing so arcane or difficult about the law that only a select few geniuses ought to be able to understand it. If no one is excused even by ignorance, then everyone is expected to know and understand his rights and how to protect them.
But as many have been called to the study and understanding of law, a privileged few are destined to push the envelop even further. They comprise that distinguished brotherhood of men and women who are called to put the law into practice.
The law is dynamic. It is constantly changing as the continuing fruit of informed debate. In any debate, the premises are equal but it is the superior reason that prevails. That’s why to become a member of the Bar, you must hurdle the highest criteria of upholding truth and justice, buoyed by your confidence that you are on the right side of the law.
This calling is conferred upon you by aspiration, cultivated in you by the academe, and is confirmed by the Supreme Court with a license. On September, the highest court of the land makes its most important judgment: who are to become the newest members of this distinguished Bar?
Make a declaration of faith today that you are destined to be among the anointed few that the Supreme Court will next enfranchise as "officer of the court."
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