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Perspective

Jul. 10, 2012

Andy Griffith, William Rehnquist, and the 'Man in a Hurry’

Andy Griffith's death spurs memories of a time before lawyers' lives were held hostage by technology. By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm


By Dan Lawton


Andy Griffith died last week at age 86. He had a pretty good run at it - stand-up comedy, some memorable films, and two hit television shows which live on, seemingly in perpetuity, in syndication. Both of Griffith's iconic TV roles were players in the legal system. In one ("Matlock"), he played a canny criminal defense lawyer. In the other ("The Andy Griffith Show"), he played a kindly small-town sheriff. I rarely watched eit...

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