[{"id":42939,"date":"2026-05-13T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/law\/?p=42939"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:13:59","slug":"james-gathright-tax-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/law\/2026\/05\/13\/james-gathright-tax-law\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ceiling: How James Gathright Found Room to Grow in Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\nBy the time James Gathright arrived at the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, he had already lived through several versions of adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had worked construction and carpentry through college. He taught percussion in public school. He earned a real estate license. He worked retail in Nashville during the height of COVID-19 while trying to build a career in music. Through it all, he kept playing drums and singing with his band, Blackstrap, booking gigs and managing the business side of the work himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What connected those experiences was not a straight path toward law school, but a pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI would pick things up really quickly,\u201d Gathright said. \u201cThen I\u2019d hit a ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the clearest examples came during his time working at a JD Sports store in Franklin, Tennessee. Hired first as a sales associate, Gathright quickly moved into leadership roles, becoming a supervisor within weeks and an assistant manager shortly afterward. Before long, the company offered him his own store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On paper, it looked like success. But the offer forced him to confront a question that had followed him through several jobs already: Was he building a career he wanted, or simply succeeding at the next thing put in front of him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI only really liked selling,\u201d he said. \u201cI liked working with people. The further up you got, the less you actually get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, the music career that had brought him to Nashville had begun to stall as the live entertainment industry struggled to recover from the pandemic. When his lease ended, he packed up and moved home to El Dorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking back, Gathright now sees those years less as false starts and more as a process of elimination. Each job taught him something about the kind of work that energized him and the kind that did not. He liked solving problems. He liked working directly with people. He wanted autonomy. What wore him down was micromanagement, routine administration and work that felt static once he mastered it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI learned early on that I\u2019m going to swim regardless,\u201d he said. \u201cI may not know what I\u2019m doing when I start, but I\u2019m going to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For most of his life, Gathright had never imagined becoming an attorney \u2014 he had earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in music. Then he took a job working for a lawyer in El Dorado. The opportunity came through a connection he made while working in real estate, and at first, the position was practical. The firm needed help, and Gathright needed work. What surprised him was how much he enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI enjoyed finding the missing pieces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work felt different from anything he had done before. Instead of reaching a point where everything became routine, the legal field seemed to expand the deeper he got into it. There was always another angle to consider, another layer of analysis beneath the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At one point, Gathright mentioned pursuing a paralegal certification to increase his earning potential. The attorney he worked for had another suggestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy don\u2019t you just go to law school?\u201d he remembered him saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea had never seriously crossed his mind before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t even know that I could go back to law school after the degrees that I got,\u201d Gathright said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, Bowen offered something important: proximity to the life he had already built. The law school allowed him to remain connected to his family, his music network and the people who had supported him through years of uncertainty and career changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So he took the LSAT, applied to Bowen before receiving his score and committed fully to the opportunity in front of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf I didn\u2019t get into Bowen,\u201d he said, \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to law school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like many of the decisions that brought him there, Gathright approached law school without having everything perfectly figured out. During his first semester at Bowen, he was commuting daily from El Dorado to Little Rock while planning a wedding and trying to avoid taking on significant student debt. To make morning classes, he often left home around 6 a.m. and did not return until late in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t have time to read,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have time to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eventually, after conversations with attorneys and mentors, he realized the arrangement was not sustainable. He moved to Little Rock during his first semester, and later, his wife, Emilia, joined him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That support system, combined with Bowen\u2019s hands-on approach to legal education, helped steady the transition into law school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Outside the classroom, Gathright continued performing with his band while building legal experience through clerkships and externships at places including the Arkansas Municipal League, Simmons Bank, Nash Law Firm, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The experiences exposed him to a wide range of legal work, from estate planning and secured transactions to bankruptcy proceedings and business-related matters. Along the way, he also learned what did not fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really want to litigate at all,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, he found himself increasingly drawn toward transactional and tax-related work, particularly the strategic problem-solving involved in business and finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then he took Federal Income Tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was my favorite class I\u2019ve taken in law school,\u201d Gathright said. \u201cIt just made sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Gathright, the appeal of tax law was not simply the subject matter. It was the realization that he had finally found a field that could continue challenging him long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a field that keeps evolving,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The more he studied business and tax law, the more Gathright recognized connections to experiences he had already accumulated outside the classroom. Years of managing bookings, contracts, payments and logistics for his band had given him an unexpected introduction to the business side of professional life. His work in retail, real estate and sales had also shaped the way he thought about systems, negotiation and client relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As his interest in tax law grew, Gathright began talking with faculty mentors and practicing attorneys about what it would take to build a career in the field. Following graduation from Bowen this weekend and the bar exam this summer, he plans to begin the Tax LL.M. program at the University of Florida Levin College of Law while working with RMP in Little Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In some ways, the direction surprised him. Tax law had never been part of the original plan because there had never really been an original plan. Instead, his path to law school was built piece by piece through experience, trial and error, and a willingness to keep moving toward opportunities that felt meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think something I\u2019ve noticed,\u201d he said, \u201cis that it really is never too late to start over or find a different path.\u201d That perspective has become one of the clearest lessons he carries from his journey to Bowen. \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to pivot into something,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you think you\u2019d like it, go try it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Gathright, the willingness to step into unfamiliar territory repeatedly led him somewhere unexpected: a legal career that finally felt expansive enough to grow alongside him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Schoeppel Wilcox, who is nearly a decade older than many of her classmates, took on a big sister role for many during her time at the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. They turned to her, not just for help with coursework, but for guidance on the practical decisions that shape daily life and professional confidence. She has talked peers through mock interviews, how to get a car loan, and how to choose a primary care provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a place where students spend long hours together, often learning how to navigate unfamiliar environments alongside one another, those moments of trust can carry real weight. 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If a student came to school without a winter coat, one might quietly appear a few days later in exactly the right size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo one needed to know that she did it,\u201d Schoeppel Wilcox said. \u201cYou just meet people\u2019s needs where you can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She saw the opposite side of that reality, too. Her father, a lawyer, died when she was seven after what she describes as a difficult and often painful marriage for her mother. Even with a college degree, a stable job and support from family, her mother was left trying to navigate financial systems and responsibilities she had never been allowed to manage on her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, Schoeppel Wilcox began to recognize how many forms uncertainty can take, especially for people trying to enter unfamiliar professional spaces. She said she was fortunate to grow up surrounded by friends whose parents stepped in to help fill gaps when they saw them. \u201cOne of my friends\u2019 dads taught me how to get a car loan,\u201d she said. \u201cThose aren\u2019t things everyone gets taught.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before law school, she worked in public service roles in Oklahoma and Arkansas, spent time working for a nonprofit in South Africa and helped run internship programs in multiple settings. 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Throughout law school, she balanced classes with clerkships, externships and research work at the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, during her second year, just weeks after she was named editor-in-chief of the UALR Law Review, her mother died unexpectedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During that same period, Schoeppel Wilcox and her wife navigated fertility treatments, a miscarriage, the responsibility of settling her mother\u2019s estate and helping care for her aunt in hospice in Oklahoma, all while continuing through law school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou want to show up for everybody and do a good job and do it right,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s hard to balance it sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At home, she and her wife relied on a simple framework for making decisions during overwhelming seasons: knowing which responsibilities were \u201cglass balls\u201d and which were \u201crubber balls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe rubber balls bounce back,\u201d she said. \u201cThe glass balls break.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes that meant missing a class to handle a family emergency and catching up later. 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Many clients face delays that stretch for months or longer, often becoming discouraged as their cases move slowly through federal systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through regular client interviews and status updates, Madalyn has learned that effective advocacy begins with clear communication and steady support. While the work often involves detailed paperwork and procedural navigation, she says the most meaningful moments come from the relationships built along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is easy to get lost in the paperwork,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the difference you make is not always on the page. Clients are grateful to have someone walking alongside them through the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experience has sharpened her professional skills while reinforcing her sense of purpose. 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