Law Practice
Nov. 20, 2009
From the Classroom to the Courtroom
Howard Fulfrost of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, a former Brooklyn public high school teacher, writes about why he became an attorney.
By Howard Fulfrost
My legal career began in the hallways of two public high schools in Brooklyn, New York. I coordinated a community-based program for high school seniors. My students had fallen through the cracks. They had never left Brooklyn - even to visit Manhattan. They were lost, invisible inner-city youth. I observed teachers who had given up. I saw squalor first-hand - rats in classrooms, exposed asbestos walls, minimal to no classroom lighting, crack viles and ne...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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