CNN Legal analyst Greta Van Susteren cautioned Harvard Law School (HLS) not to use their law degree just to get a job or make money, but to use it as a way to make greater changes in society.

"The law has it all," Van Susteren said. "A law degree is something you can change the world with."

Van Susteren addressed the assembled crowd of graduates, their parents and alumnae at the Law School Class Day ceremony held on Holmes Field in front of the school's Langdell Library.

"Do more than just take a law degree and walk off into a job," Van Susteren told the graduates.

She cited the example of five professors at the Law School and one graduate of the school as lawyers who had made such efforts, and thus used the law to its full potential.

These examples were Charles J. Ogletree, Climenko professor of law; Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter professor of law; William P. Alford, Stimson professor of law; Arthur R. Miller, Bromley professor of law; Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler professor of law; and Janet Reno, a member of the Law School class of 1963 and U.S. attorney general under former President Bill Clinton.

She noted that the law is an exciting profession to work in as long as lawyers follow such examples.

And while some lawyers have an unsatisfactory experience in their careers, Van Susteren said that they should not blame the field as a whole, but the particular job they went into. She said that any graduate of Harvard Law School should be smart enough to leave a job that they did not enjoy.