When you go into this kind of social justice law , it 's really brutal and you 're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there 's a light at the end of the tunnel , said Fred Rooney , director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law , from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates , Katalinic & amp ; Lund graduated last May .
Social justice law is really hard for the first three years .