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Law Practice

Aug. 26, 2005

Once Known as a Helping Profession, Law Has Acute Public-Image Problem

Forum Column - By Max Factor III - In seventh grade at El Rodeo Elementary School, I completed an English essay on "why I want to be an attorney" with a line that summed up my youthful hopes. "I want to be an attorney," I wrote, "to help other people who are less able to represent themselves."

        
Forum Column

By Max Factor III
        
        In seventh grade at El Rodeo Elementary School, I complete...

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