Young lawyer, noble quest; he felt a sentence was unjust and got Bill Clinton to cut it
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Attorney Sam Sheldon is profiled, a man who spends part of his time on legal work to win clemency for unjustly imprisoned prisoners or to get overly long prisoners' sentences reduced. Serena Nunn, a Minnesota woman who was sentenced to 14 years for playing a relatively minor part in a drug conspiracy,is one beneficiary of his clemency work.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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Gulf separates smalll, big firms
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Lawyers employed by a small firm just after law school can, in general, only upgrade to a large one in markets with a very tight supply of lawyers, such as transactional real estate in New York and Chicago in early 1998. Lawyers can forget about upgrading if they were not hired by a big firm right out of law school. Such lawyers must concentrate on the advantages of small firm life, such as more varied legal work and lower pressure.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Weary migratory birds pursue a swivel chair
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Cameron Stracher wrote "Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Lies, Sex, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair," a latter-day version of Scott Turow's "One L." The book is a cynic's guide to big-firm practice, discussing, first, the mass migration of humanities majors to the legal profession, and what bothers Stracher most is the alienation of law firm associates from their work. Stracher has a point when he states that this alienation drives associates to venerate the hobbies pursued as narrow spheres of personal expression.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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