Law Practice
Jan. 8, 2013
Escape to an alternate universe
Lawyers who yearn for a satisfying professional life are often chagrined to find that the practice of law is not at all what they expected. But after law school, what did they expect?
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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Lawyers who yearn for a satisfying professional life are often chagrined to find that the practice of law is not as fulfilling as they expected or, to be more precise, not at all what they expected. But after law school, what did they expect?
A few years ago, Vance Woodward, who had been a civil litigator for eight years, realized that "civil litigators are typically a far cry from trial l...
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