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Law Practice

Aug. 4, 2010

Jane's Last Cross

A lawyer wins a case she never had a chance to try, by John Scherling of Sughrue Mion.

By John Scherling

"John, I need you to try the Goldman case for me," said Jane Hahn, my friend and colleague of 20 years. Perhaps this was a simple request, but it was complicated by the implications of a looming loss that I did not want to think about or acknowledge.

A month earlier Jane told me that her cancer had returned. We harbored hope that she could again fight it off, and her doctors were optimistic that chemotherapy poten...

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