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Judges and Judiciary

Jul. 23, 2009

Language Wrestling

Judges' work is not pretty and usually involves ferreting out meaning from perplexing statutes.

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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A long time ago - a really long time ago, when I was a practicing lawyer, that's how long it was - I enrolled in a Keogh plan. Not so long ago, it was worth something. Why would a young, carefree bachelor (Wait a minute, strike the word "carefree.") want a Keogh plan?

It might have had something to do with an admonition from my contracts professor in law school at the beginning of the semester. He cautioned that thos...

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