Foreword

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Publication year: 2021

Foreword

I am not a lawyer. But I am a writer and I know that the written word is of critical importance to practitioners of the law. The written word was certainly of critical importance to my father, the author of this treatise, the Honorable Thomas A. Dickerson. My father passed away on July 26^th , 2018, but his writing lives on—writing that will continue to impact readers from legal scholars to everyday consumers interested in protecting their rights. In this foreword, I am honored to have the opportunity to introduce you to him, hopefully with some insights and anecdotes from inside and outside his legal writing career.

In the late 1970s, my father made the choice to leave a relatively secure position at a Manhattan law firm to become a solo practitioner. At any time that is a tremendous risk. But my father was also recently married, was planning a family, and the economy had seen better days. To make matters more complicated, he chose to navigate waters of the law that very few had navigated before: recreation and travel law. There were very few precedents in this area and he had limited contacts from which to develop his practice. Some people may have viewed the move as reckless. Others saw it as bold.

My father always referred to the travel industry as "The Wild West." The industry...