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State Bar & Bar Associations

Oct. 8, 2002

Civil Libertarian

James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers forward in his office chair, gestures hungrily and, in an emphatic whisper, confesses, "O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I," quoting more than 40 lines of Hamlet softly but passionately.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

        James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers forward in his office chair, gestures hungrily and, in an emphatic whisper, confesses, "O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I," quoting more than 40 lines of Hamlet softly but passionately.
        Jim Herman -...

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