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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 10, 2008

Passion, Knowledge Enliven Drab Subjects

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Trial lawyers must find a way to make drab subjects and complex pieces of evidence worthy of jurors' attention.

FORUM COLUMN

By Lynn Duryee
This article appears on Page 6

      From the first day of the first semester of law school, I worried about Federal Income Tax, a class required to graduate. It didn't bother me that I couldn't tell a statute from a statue or a tort from a tart. But Federal Income Tax - with its complex regulations and mathematical formulations - grieved me deeply. I put it off until it could be put off no longer. In ...

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