I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

The emphasis on getting business and billing goes far beyond the professionalism of law and does the profession injustice.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.