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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 12, 2008

Choose Litigation: It's at the Center of Law, a Noble Profession

Forum Column - By William Sheffield - Litigators are among the most noble and hard-working members of the legal profession.

FORUM COLUMN

By William Sheffield
This article appears on Page 6.

      I entered the legal profession 37 years ago after graduating from Boalt Hall. Those were the days when tuition was $195 per semester, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement was winding down and everyone knew the name John Wayne. Having spent the years since rattling around the courts as a trial lawyer, Superior Court judge, pro tem justice of the Court of Appeal a...

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