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Law Practice

Dec. 5, 2011

Reflecting on the past: myth or reality?

Can the past offer useful lessons for the present - or is it all tainted by nostalgia?

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.

UNDER SUBMISSION

I can't believe it. My last two columns were about the so-called "Top 100 whatever" - lawyers, judges, taxidermists, you name it. I received more emails on these columns than any previous columns, except the ones I have written about cats. One cannot imagine how many hundreds of cat lovers there are in the legal profession, except for a few who find the feline species abhorrent. Well, what do you expect from judges?

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