ladies and gentlemen, ted landsmark is going to continue with our panel and we look forward to listening to you. thank you, ted. thank you so much. >> so as some folks know mike was actually my first boss in boston. i came to work at a law firm where he oversaw the training of emerging legal professionals and among us were folks named bill weld and deval patrick. and i think at the time we were almost certainly the only law firm in boston that was about to produce three governors for the commonwealth. it was extraordinary and he certainly gave us guidance in terms of how we developed our technical skills, but i think more importantly, his contribution to us was to give us a very clear sense of what it meant to be an ethical, legal practitioner, an individual who understood the needs of clients, but also understood the needs of the profession and of the responsibility that we all had to make important contributions in terms of public service. and so, the time that he had spent subsequently within the academy, i think, has inspired thousands and thousands of students to think of themselves