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Law Practice

Nov. 11, 1999

Lawyer Escapes The Bar That Really Kills You

Mill Valley lawyer David Hobler picked up a heavy drinking habit around the same time he was urging courts to rehabilitate, not punish, young drug addicts.

Patricia Jacobus
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Mill Valley lawyer David Hobler picked up a heavy drinking habit around the same time he was urging courts to rehabilitate, not punish, young drug addicts.
This was about 30 years ago, a time when he sipped cocktails in a coffee cup on his way to work yet couldn't realize he was nearly as bad off as his clients.
Seated in his living room one recent afternoon, wearing a blue Hawai...

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