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were a constant source of joy. (Little did I know that about thirty years later, St. Luke’s would once again be on my radar.)
To make matters worse, there were few law students in the dorm. There were two other very identifiable groups though: business school (“B School”) students and students with major physical afflictions. Once again, I did not exactly fit in.
Law Review, as It Were
My living conditions were different during my second and third years. For most of the balance of law school, I shared an apartment with vari- ous other guys and, for the last three months of the third year, I lived with my wife Phyllis, whom I met during the second year and married during the third, on March 15, 1969. Please review the fourth paragraph of Chapter Seven and the fourth paragraph of Chapter Fourteen, and if you wish, see, inter alia (meaning “among other things,” which lawyers, usually litigators, say if they wish to dazzle you—and if they wish to provide an escape hatch if they have made an apparently inexhaustible list, the ostensible completeness of which they do not wish to be bound by), Chapter Twenty, the first eight paragraphs of Chapter Twenty- One, and all of Chapters Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four for much, much more concerning Phyllis. But, for now, I’d like to concentrate on the academic side of Columbia and, to an extent, on the atmosphere.
I should say at the outset that I did not and do not find the law school experience to have been of much value. After graduating from law school, I was in private practice in three law firms (for an aggregate of about thirty-two years); I was the general counsel in a business enter- prise (about four years); I served in a very senior capacity at an agency of the federal government in Washington, D.C. (more than two years); and I actually taught at a law school for a period of fifteen years. While I’m certain that I must have learned or absorbed a lot in law school, I find it very difficult to see any real connection between it and what I did and encountered as a practicing attorney. None of what I regard as the
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