"During law school, I focused on coursework for contract and transactional work that I know I could apply in various roles. I took a course in M&A Fundamentals in my third year of law school, and we spent a semester working through a merger transaction. We were partnered with a classmate and assigned different sides to practice what it would be like to work on such a transaction. I learned how to gain confidence through the feedback my classmates and the professor provided. In addition, as I knew I was interested in this area of law, I routinely visited my professor's office hours to further discuss the class materials and how to best apply what I was learning after I graduate."