![]() I am really lucky because I have 70 people who are extraordinarily patient with me,” he says. “ It requires a lot of help and a lot of cooperation, and a sort of shared vision, right? If people are determined to do it, it can be done. Temperamentally and emotionally, I tend toward the brittle and neurotic,” he jokes.īut membership on the journal helped mitigate that for him. “I pulled it up as I figured things out, but I could easily have carried that perceived failure with me through to the next year. “I did not have a good 1L year,” he admits. It also has the largest subscriber base among the law school’s traditional law journals.ĮBDJ created a sense of belonging for Iqbal and became a throughline of his law school story. In the 40 years since its founding, EBDJ’s articles have been cited by every Circuit Court of Appeals in the country and multiple times by the U.S. The journal Iqbal leads, EBDJ, is unique among the country’s bankruptcy journals as a largely self-funded, fully student-run publication. What he found, he says, is that he has an ethical imperative to help people to grow from perceived failures by creating an atmosphere of community and belonging. ![]() Trustee Program, the Department of Justice’s bankruptcy oversight arm. Adriano Omar Iqbal views his budding career as a trial attorney focused on bankruptcy as an ethical imperative to help others grow from perceived failures.“Coming to law school, for me, has been a valuable exercise in growing as a person, figuring out what is meaningful for me, and determining what I want to spend my energy pursuing,” says Adriano Omar Iqbal, editor-in-chief of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal (EBDJ) and future trial attorney for the U.S.
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