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You may be pleasantly surprised to find how lucrative a practice may become when your strongest motivation is a desire to serve competently, timely, and with a clear conscience. The lawyer, like the doctor, has a general obligation to the society affording him his education and the opportunity he now enjoys. Thus, the senrice to the poor should be given wholeheartedly and with customary zeal. An experiment in the field of legal aid is now taking place in our own community sponsored by the Bar Associations and charitable foundations. You will continue to have a part. Recent United States Supreme Court decisions have imposed requirements calculated to better insure the constitutional rights of the accused and the impecunious. Not all experiences with the unfortunate are satisfying. The pleasures of your day may not be enhanced by caring for the troubles of a frustrated soul or a disoriented youth, but these are part of the practice of the law and undoubtedly add to your capacity for appreciation of the better cases. I have observed that those who need you most are often the most difficult to please. Beware of the client who berates his last lawyers. He tells you only his side of the story. With very few exceptions you will find your brothers in the profession honest and each in his own way earnestly endeavoring to adequately perform his duty. While those who are engaged in the practice of the law receive their share of public plaudits, they must fortify themselves for the criticisms that are sure to come. Particularly in the field of litigation, the loser often feels that either his lawyer has not served him well or that the ocurt, the jury or the whole judicial system is out of joint. Politicians, authors and poets have each employed their specific arts to vent their private caustic views on the lawyer and the courts. My favorite English author, Charles Dickens, once described the workings of a jury in these phrases: If it's near dinnertime, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired and says, "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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