Great individuals that shaped America’s history became lawyers through apprenticeships. One of the most prominent was the 3rd president of the United States: Thomas Jefferson.⠀
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Jefferson read the law under the tutelage of George Wythe, notably the first American Law professor and part. The future president would be admitted to the Virginia Bar by 1767, becoming an advocate for slavery abolition, participant in notable trials such as Blair v. Blair (1772), and reflecting his views in personal freedom in the Declaration of Independence.
As a devote lawyer, he handled over 900 matters and was seen as a representative for all kinds of clients, from the wealthiest to the most humble, managing to assert and reflect all he believed in as far as personal freedom and rights in the way he handled his practice.
By the time he left practice in 1774, he had left a mark on how cases of land were handled, and he went on to become the president that represented the transformation into a more solidified nation based on the ordains of both natural law and common law.
Thomas Jefferson became essential to the example of law and revolutionary spirit that would shape America, and it all started with his formation as a lawyer as an apprentice led by George Wythe.
