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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 31, 2007

On Being a Plaintiffs' Lawyer

Being a trial lawyer once was widely viewed as a noble calling. Remember Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall? Remember Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck's heroic lawyer in "To Kill A Mockingbird?"

By Mark Labaton

      Being a trial lawyer once was widely viewed as a noble calling.
      Remember Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall? Remember Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck's heroic lawyer in "To Kill A Mockingbird?"
      These and other trial lawyers - real and fictional - were role models.
      Times have changed. The term "trial...

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