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"I want to refer to non-Latino Spanish-speaking lawyers."

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Reality so often is more pathetic than fiction.  Yesterday, I was talking with a woman on the way down the courthouse elevator. She works in the courthouse, and we spoke in Spanish, her native tongue; I do not have as much of a throughout-the-day chance to speak Spanish now that I am no longer with my former law partner, whose Spanish is impeccable and whose practice heavily involves the language.  This woman said she was happy to meet an additional Spanish-speaking lawyer (my Spanish is intermediate, bolstered by a quarter century of practice), because some people sometimes ask her for names of such lawyers. Then came the often uncomfortable question: 'Where are you from?" Some just want to know where I grew up. Others actually want to know my ethnic and/or religious background...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).