You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

You make yourself available to the movement. At that point, for example, battered wives were not on the top of anybody's list. It was, "What did you do to provoke him? Why would he do that to you?" Stuff like that. I called the hotline, and I said I was available to help get orders of protection. I would help do whatever needed to be done, serve their papers. Many times, they'd go to court, get their papers, and then be afraid to serve them on the guy. So that was one source of income. But I took anything that came across my doorstep.

You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.