Avoidance

When I was in college, for one winter break, I worked as a temporary secretary at my mother’s lawfirm.

(This would have been 1984, or maybe 1985; at that point my typing speed meant I could command a pretty good rate, and I never lacked for assignments. I don’t think jobs like that exist anymore. Computer programmers are on Fiverr; my 90+ wpm typing speed wouldn’t even get me that. But I digress.)

Every profession attracts its set of interesting personalities, and the law is no different. ...