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.)
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