Saving Our Profession

Zealous representation for all The very first words of the preamble to the American Bar Association's rules of professional conduct states, "A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility of the quality of justice."Paragraph 6 of those rules, in part, states that, as a public citizen, a lawyer should seek improvement of the law, access to the legal system, the administration of justice, and the quality of service rendered by the legal profession.According to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings, young black men are 21 times at a greater risk than their white counterparts to be shot dead by police officers.Among our guest speakers have been an airline pilot, a scientist, retired college head football coach, actress, police chief, drug-sniffing dog and his handler, head manager of a grocery store, retired head basketball coach, former Ringling Brothers Circus clown, physician, Assistant U.S. Attorney, and convicted drug dealer who is now a successful businessman.