The academic territory we now know as Elder Law did not exist when most of us writing for this symposium were in law school. Something both daunting and liberating resonates about driving the first covered wagons over new territory. Lacking a map, we learned from one another and through trial and error. A discipline defined by the client rather than by a discreet body of law, Elder Law reminds the student that law practice should be, above all else, client-centered.