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Law Practice

Apr. 18, 2007

When Clients Call After Midnight

Forum Column - By Nora Quinn - It's late, and a client calls you in a panic. Is he asking about statutory interpretation? Not likely. He wants to know how to get himself or a friend out of jail. if you're a civil lawyer, it's good to have a criminal practitioner around to help.

FORUM COLUMN

By Nora Quinn
     
      I have no way of knowing why you went to law school. Plenty of people do it because they have liberal arts degrees and need to find a way to make a living. Others do it out of a sense of wanting to help people. Still others have deeply imprinted memories of Perry Mason, Atticus Finch and Clarence Darrow. We think we are going to stand up for people wrongly accused,...

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