Low pay, happy lawyer

You know what's fantastic about putting up your own criminal defense blog? Do it long enough, and someone you admire as much as Ray Ward sends you e-mail! And not just e-mail, he sends you material and links!

From the proprietor of Minor Wisdom:

Skelly, I think this story is on your beat.

Ambrogi's headline is "Low pay, big cases, happy lawyer."

He links to a story on the NY Times that begins:

"THERE are many kinds of lawyers. Some defend the vilified, like mobsters and disgraced congressmen. In return, the lawyers can win money and fame.

But others defend the forgotten — tenants, busboys, people at the wrong end of a police truncheon — and are themselves forgotten..."

The article is about Ray Brescia, director of the community development project at the Urban Justice Center in Manhattan:

It is rewarding work, he says, for a "behind-the-scenes guy."

(In return, let me send you back to Minor Wisdom to read this post: "Depression and the Connecticut bar." Mr. Ward owns this topic among the blawgs, and his frequent posts on it are a source of personal help to me. Thank you, counselor.)