What type of Law do I want to practice?

In coming to law school, most of us likely have some idea of the type of law that we think we want to practice. Once others find out that you are in law school, they always ask the question what type of law do you want to practice? This question is always difficult for me to answer because I do not know exactly what I want to practice. For me and likely many law students, we have interests in the law, but it is hard to really pin down exactly one area of law that we might want to practice. Last summer, one of the attorneys in the office I worked at gave us the advice to not set in stone the practice area you want to practice in. For one, you may get into a particular practice area that you thought you liked and end up hating it. I think, in the practice of law particularly, that it is best if you can get into a firm that will allow you to work in a couple different practice groups so that you get exposure to multiple areas of the law. It is important to keep all avenues open because there might be something that you thought you would never do that ends up interesting you. One thing that I like about the legal field is that once you have developed the skills to be an attorney, you can go learn other substantive areas of the law if they interest you. Ultimately, I hope I am not the only one who has a hard time answering the question what kind of law do you want to practice? It is a question I am sure all of us have been asked and it is surprisingly difficult to answer right out of law school with so many possibilities out there.