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Breath of knowledge

I'm in the midst of a big huge job hunt for a position with a law firm next summer. (Yes, sadly, in law school, you start looking for a job for your second summer during your first summer.) I've had countless interviews over the course of the last few weeks, which means I've sent out countless "Thanks for interviewing me and I really like your firm and here's why I'm a fantastic candidate" e-mails.

I sent out essentially the same e-mail to probably 20 or so people I'd interviewed with when I finally caught a glaring - and yet oh-so-Lara - typo.

I wrote a sentence about how I have a variety of interests at this stage in my young law career, from intellectual property to criminal law to labor and employment issues to litigation. And then I wrote, " . . . and I hope to find a firm with a breath of knowledge in these areas."

What, pray tell, is a BREATH of knowledge? Is it like a whisper of intelligence? A murmur of enlightenment? A sigh of wisdom? (Obviously, I had meant to write "breadth of knowledge.")

Hopefully, no big fancy law firm caught my typo. If they did, well, I hope it made them chuckle.

Posted by Lara Richards at 5:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)