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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jul. 29, 2008

Judiciary Still Sorely Lacking When It Comes to Real Diversity

In a society that professes to worship diversity, an able, civic-minded fellow should be able to question orthodoxy without nixing his chances of a judicial appointment, writes Gideon Kanner. Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Gideon Kanner
This article appears on Page 6

      Some of my best friends are government lawyers, and if I had a sister I wouldn't mind if she married one of them, or even a court commissioner. Still, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and we seem to be at that point. I am hardly the only one to take notice of the problem of government lawyers displacing private practitioners among new...

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