They spent 40 minutes together in the ring, but history tied these two men together.

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

There are the tales of the socks and underwear he keeps in his office desk, of having to stop at his office en route to weddings to pick up a suit, of colleagues calling at 3 in the morning to leave messages on his office phone and hearing him pick up. From his discombobulated apartment comes lore about lasagna grown petrified after three months in his oven - that is, once he'd had his stove connected.

He veered from hero to villain -- and both were untrue.

He takes hundreds of recent law graduates at their most vulnerable, dependent state and guides them, soothes them, suffers with them, flatters them, advises them, exhorts them, humors them and holds their hands over the last hurdle before they enter the practice of law.