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I’ve become preoccupied lately with the education of young doctors. Doctors must be better equipped than lawyers to deal with death and diseases. Nature fails us all in the end; doctors cope with the consequences.

Lawyers also deal with life transforming, and, sometimes, life...

A former law partner used to say that the practice of law is really social oncology: Criminal defense and civil rights lawyers spend their time dealing with things that just don't fit within a well-functioning social organism. A man accused of murder represents an aggressive malignancy; a person...

It was a close call this morning. My client was accused of sexually abusing a minor by digitally penetrating her vagina. The child was five at the time. She claims it happened; my client denied it. There was no physical evidence to corroborate the child's claim. So we prepared for trial.
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