Book Review a Path in the Law. the Chronicle of a Connecticut Lawyer & Legistator Judge Robert Satter. Published by the Connecticut Law Book Company, 1997. 378pp. $12.00
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| Publication year | 2021 |
71 CBJ 76. BOOK REVIEW A PATH IN THE LAW. The Chronicle of a Connecticut Lawyer & Legistator Judge Robert Satter. Published by The Connecticut Law Book Company, 1997. 378pp. $12.00
Historians will be studying and writing about that period in United States history covering the years 1945 through 1990 for many years to come. Beginning with the end of World War 11 we have witnessed the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy years, the assassination of a president, Watergate, the civil rights movement and many other dramatic events. This is the period of time that spans the career of judge Robert Satter as set forth in his autobiographical work A Path in the Law.
Judge Satter will mark 50 years in the law in July of 1997. He spent 28 years as a practicing lawyer, including serving as legislator and his remaining years as a trial judge. He is still very active trial referee thoroughly enjoying his work as evidenced by his comment upon working after 5:00 p.m. in his office writing an opinion "I'd rather be doing this than anything else in the world."
This is a fascinating tale of a career in the law. As a lawyer, he argued cases before town courts, state courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He handled business tr-ansactions, criminal cases, domestic cases, labor cases and personal injury claims. His practice was varied and challenging and his description of his life as a lawyer which began in New York City is a remarkable tale.
He discusses the formation of the law firm of Ritter and Satter in 1952 when he formed a partnership with his Rutger's classmate, George Ritter, and the trials and tribulations of young lawyers trying to build a practice in the Hartford community. They started in a converted house on the comer of Russ and Lafayette Street and their cases had no pattern or order to them but rather encompassed all fields of the law.
His recounting of cases he handled in the beginning years of Ritter and Satter vividly portrays the empathy he felt for clients..His accounts of the trial for a woman who was injured as a result of swallowing glass as well as his defense of a client sued in the federal court by the Long Island Railroad for violation of a fiduciary duty and fraud provide us with...
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