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Law Practice

Sep. 22, 2011

What happened to our profession?

Funny how you don't really care about income until it's made relative to someone else's.

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

Growing up in a small California coastal town in the 1950s and 1960s probably didn't offer me the best vantage point to discern what the big city law practice was really about. Television shows and the movies probably were the greatest contributors to my understanding of legal life. "Perry Mason," which aired from 1957 through 1966, portrayed a justice system in which the intelligence, tenacity and perseverance of one, not particularly warm or fuzzy, practitioner was allowed to sh...

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