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Leaving a legacy of justice.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-FEB-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Leaving a legacy of justice.(President's Page)

Article Excerpt
When you think of heroes of the legal profession, who comes to mind? Clarence Darrow, the elemental man in the Tennessee courtroom fighting to preserve the doctrine of the separation of church and state? Abraham Lincoln, holding the union together? Or perhaps Thomas Jefferson, crafting the words that gave birth to our nation?

There are many heroes whose names you may have never heard. There is Edgar Brackett, who put together the case that allowed Benjamin Cardozo, then a justice on the New York Court of Appeals, to decide McPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which eliminated the antiquated doctrine of privity in products liability cases. Or Dick Foster, the South Carolina lawyer who took his case all the way to that...

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