The book profiles history’s most perseverant, passionate lawyers (Abraham Lincoln, Leon Jaworski and James A. Baker, III) and argues that these lawyers-turned-government officials set the examples of qualities that today’s attorneys need to possess daily to transform the public mindset of the profession. It also devotes a section to one of the most beloved fictional characters, Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, and deconstructs his non-fictional roots that made him one of America’s icons.
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