Longtime trial attorney J. Bernard Alexander III landed his first law firm job when he was a freshman in high school.
"I was basically the assistant to the secretary," Alexander recalled, noting he did a great deal of photocopying and working on typewriters was still commonplace. "I was the one taking the Wite-Out and whiting up so you could go back and correct mistakes. That's the level of sophistication of work I was doing."<... (continued)