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"A collection of the author’s personal vignettes experienced over a half century of the practice of general law. It is written from the perspective of a young law school graduate through the completion of 60 years of practice. This book leads you through some of the various experiences of a small town attorney who served not only the law but also various personal, community, and state roles from being a member of the local school, library and historical society boards to serving in the Kansas House of Representatives and the State Board of Education. As the law becomes increasingly more specialized, the traditional small-town lawyer is being replaced by big fi rms and another concept of the practice of law. This personal record of a typical small-town lawyer is a timely refl ection of the way it used to be in small town America."
This is a complete guide to practicing law effectively in a small town, it provides practical advice on how to identify a small town or rural location in which to practice law and how to launch and build such a practice. The guide includes anecdotal materials about specific communities and their practitioners. You'll discover what a small-town practice is like, how local practitioners succeed, and what an aspiring small-town lawyer needs to know.
If Frank McCourt had grown up in Depression-era Arkansas, he might write like Dale Bumpers, one of the most colorful and entertaining politicians in recent American history: Atticus Finch with a sense of humor. In The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town, Bumpers tells the story of his remarkable journey from poverty to political legend, and the result is a great American memoir that is already attracting wide acclaim for its clever Southern charm: "How agreeable to read a serious politician's memoir and find it as full of wit, bite, scorn, compassion, and insight as Dale Bumpers himself." -Norman Mailer "Former Arkansas governor Bumpers served in the Senate for twenty-four years and is currently with a Washington law firm. However, this witty book indicates he may have a new career as a humorist on the printed page. . . . These charming tales from a country lawyer turned national politician are thoroughly enjoyable."-Publishers Weekly "This saga of bootstrapping from an impoverished boyhood to the Arkansas governor's mansion and a distinguished senatorial career could easily serve as a manual for the legislatively inclined. But it is the author's total candor, combined with his facility for humor spun out of rural America's plain talk, that lifts this remembrance well above the ordinary."- Kirkus Reviews Dale Bumpers was reared during the depths of the Great Depression, in the miserably poor town of Charleston, Arkansas, population 851. He was twelve years old when he saw and heard Franklin Roosevelt, who was campaigning in the state. Afterward, his father assured young Dale that he, too, could be president. Many years later, in 1970, after suffering financial disaster and personal tragedy, Bumpers ran for governor of Arkansas, starting out with one-percent name recognition and $50,000, most of which was borrowed from his brother and sister. He defeated arch-segregationist Orval Faubus in the primary and a Rockefeller in the general election. He served four years as governor and then twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate. He never lost an election. Two weeks after Bumpers left the Senate, President Bill Clinton called him with an urgent plea to make the closing argument in his impeachment trial. That speech became an instant classic of political oratory. The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town is the work of a master politician blessed with wry insight into character and a gift for rib-tickling tales. It is a classic American story.
These finely tempered reflections of a small city lawyer restate, in a graceful and informal manner, the true meaning of law and government to ordinary men. F. Lyman Windolph, for twenty-five years a prominent attorney in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has handled almost every kind of legal case in his career, and through his close association with his clients he has gained an understanding of their lives and problems which, coupled with his wide legal knowledge, and alert sense of the social questions of the present, gives his essays a disarming and reassuring tone. Lawyers especially will enjoy his discussion of his experience with various cases and the more general topics of the value of the jury system, the difference between city and country trials, the ethics of defending guilty clients. But all will find the chapters on the meaning of democracy and liberalism and the indirect picture which the book gives of the day-by-day life in a small American community richly rewarding. In the last instance, two final essays—one on the Pennsylvania Dutch religious sects and "A Letter to My Father"—are particularly delightful. Several of the chapters have previously been published in the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
The book is prefaced by the assumption that you have graduated from law school, passed the bar and want to practice law, in a small town or country.Everybody is the same just their prejudices are different.Ayoung man once asked Aristotle Onassis for advise on how to become successful.Onassis' reply was,"buy nice clothes and get a sun tan. Nice clothes give the appearance of success and a sun tan shows you have leisure time."I would add two things for success as a small town lawyer: buy an expensive looking automobile and have a nice, neat, tastefully-decorated office.To be successful one must appear successful.Also remember the show business phrase, "be nice to people on the way up because you are going to meet the same ones on the way down." In the practice of law, be nice to the people who run the court house, because if you are not, you won't make it high enough to come down.