The benefits of lawyers’ second childhoods: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once” [with later-added response by a law prof]
That quote from Charles Lamb about lawyers once being children leads off article “From Atticus Finch to Harry Potter” (The West Virginia Record). The writer interviews Pat McHenry Sullivan (about whom I blogged here before) on the stress of legal practice and the strain on ethics, and about how lawyers can recapture some of the gifts, such as wonder and tolerance for ambiguity, that come with childhood. From the article:Sullivan believes that most lawyers get into trouble because they try to b
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