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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 15, 2008

Good Works Will Restore Lawyers' Tarnished Reputations

Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Lawyers can help the profession reclaim its prestige by devoting themselves to good causes.

FORUM COLUMN

By K.C. Victor
This article appears on Page 6.

      I remember an era when being a lawyer carried a certain amount of prestige and professional cachet. It was considered at least honorable and possibly wise to have become a lawyer. A good friend of mine, now dead for several years, once told me that when he was first admitted to the bar in Baltimore (in the early 1950s), he was automatically considered by most withi...

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