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Law Practice,
Government

Nov. 6, 2018

Next case, no client: Lawyers turned candidates

Thanks to the new science of smearing candidates with the opprobrious epithet “lawyer” we may never see the likes of courthouse bottom feeders like Adams, Jefferson and Lincoln ever again.

James Attridge

Law Ofc of James Attridge

270 Divisadero St #3
San Francisco , CA 94117

Phone: (415) 552-3088

Email: jattridge@attridgelaw.com

U Denver School of Law

James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.

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Next case, no client: Lawyers turned candidates
New York Times News Service

Fate has plopped me down this electoral season in my hometown of Denver, which like everywhere else, ain't what it used to be. In the good old days Colorado was a reliable corner of Nixonland, with a legislature dominated by Rotarians, Jaycees and cowboy-hatted country clubbers. Now the electorate is a brownie stew of do-gooders, Bible thumpers, tax-hating axe-grinders and Trumpeteers. Those who believe the gibberish we learned in civics class naively think this is a ...

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