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To: Ilaine who wrote (16355)	1/10/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I guess high-powered law firms pay their debt to society by having to represent less fortunate members on occasion. oF course they give these cases to the new associates who are already swamped with grunt work and don't have a clue anyway. Dan's first pro bono case was one of his favorites, though. It was an appeal by some guy in prison who wrote these lonnng letters to him that were hysterically funny and complete fiction. He claimed to be an injured Viet Nam veteran and when Dan traced his record, it turned out he had been dishonorably discharged for being AWOL, getting very drunk and riding a bike into a truck, thus breaking his leg. He had very noble reasons for committing his crimes. Every week brought a new story explaining how wrongfully he had been treated. I think he's probably still in prison. not like civil litigation where you paper each other to death with pleadings and motions and memoranda and appeals. Were you a litigator? This was one of the most frustrating things to Dan-he LOVED the courtroom, but in civil litigation you so often don't get there. He would spend weeks preparing---be at hte office twenty four hours a day the week before, get all ready--and then the morning of the trial there would be a settlement and all that work was nothing but a game of chicken. Between that and how he really didn't like a lot of the things he saw, he choose to leave.