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Blue skies, smiling at me.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

   During my first summer in law school, working in the regulations and legislation division of a federal agency, I mentioned my interest in becoming a litigator. One of the staff attorneys -- who had paralegaled at the ACLU, which was one of the places I wanted to work -- exclaimed: "Don't you know that is the legal path that causes the most ulcers?"   Ulcers shmulcers, I reasoned. I went to law school intent on learning better how to fight for civil liberties, and preferred -- and still do -- an ulcer doing work I enjoy than having a less meaningful life without stress.     Of course, ultimately I found the path to being calm even in the eye of the most virulent trial storm, as I describe here. Before reaching that path, though, many times in my first two years of practicing criminal defense I would walk into the courthouse feeling my heart sink to my stomach, obsessed over how much injustice was being done every minute in any courthouse I walked into...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).