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Horan's county bar tribute was not in my name, and never will be.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Bill of Rights (From public domain.) When a criminal defense lawyer whom I highly respect and admire became the president of a Northern Virginia county bar association, I asked myself "why?". Why get involved in overseeing tributes to retiring judges merely because they are judges, tributes to lawyers merely because they are lawyers, and bench-bar dances to congratulate lawyers and judges all the more merely because they are lawyers and judges? Or, did this lawyer find a Doug Henning secret to overhaul the bar association to the image of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers or the American Civil Liberties Union? I imagine the above-mentioned county bar association does more than arranging events and programs to congratulate lawyers and judges merely for being lawyers and judges...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).