Law Practice,
Civil Rights
Jun. 15, 2020
We’re the biggest part of the problem
“Protecting the powerless”? The most esteemed and well-paid lawyers of their times tirelessly petitioned legislatures and judges to squelch abolition and expand slavery into the territories.
Dan Lawton
Partner
Klinedinst PC in San Diego
501 W Broadway #1100
San Diego , CA 92101
Phone: (619) 400-8000
Email: dlawton@klinedinstlaw.com
Georgetown Univ Law Center
The views expressed here are his own.
On Tuesday, I read "Leading Change," a mass email which arrived in my in box that morning. It was another in a series of recent lawyerly declamations about racism and injustice. Its author was William C. Koch, Jr., president of the American Inns of Court. It read:
"The founders of our nation ... understood that liberty under the law is the finest way of life humanity could imagine....
"Lawyers, like...
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