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The law became his life. With no family, he became a workaholic. Fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, Lucien practiced law with a passion. He
Bold and abrasive by nature,
the unwed mothers and their unfed babies.
Blacks had an excuse for being worthless, but for whites in a white world, there were no excuses.
‘You shouldn’t criticize, Stan. It’s an easy habit to acquire and an impossible one to break. It robs your soul of character.’
to prevent a human from legally killing another human.
I worked forty hours a week in his office when I was in high school and fifty when I was in college. He
told me
in
the admissibility of the rape. It’s a tough issue, and it got involved. I apologize for the size of it.’ It was as neat as her other briefs, complete with a table of contents, bibliography, and numbered pages. He flipped through it. ‘Damn, Row Ark, I didn’t ask for a textbook.’ ‘I know you’re intimidated by scholarly work, so I made a conscious effort to use words with fewer than three syllables.’ ‘My, aren’t we frisky today. Could you
objections from Buckley, and provided case authority to fight his objections. Jake took great
‘Nervous?’ ‘As a whore in church.’
Lucien had taught him that fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid – just don’t show it.
He showed the jury, Noose, Buckley, everybody, that it’s his courtroom and he’s not afraid of a damned person in it.
