Journal slant?

• Author: Sam Rennick
• Pages: 10-10

to the current situation in the Unit-

ed States. Part of my class discussion

early in the semester is on the topic of

diversity.

Also, during the semester, I bring

in guest speakers from various back-

grounds. To illustrate, my students will

hear from a transgender woman, a

speaker whose parents were from Cuba

and an African American businessman

from the Kansas City area.

Larry Altman

Overland Park, Kansas

Journal slant?

Leave for another day why you decided

to convert a lawyer’s magazine into a

political journal. I frankly can’t imagine

what goes on at your editorial meetings.

Every issue of the ABA Journal has

become heavily political, and the view-

points are so unbalanced, so confron-

tational, I can no longer read it—and

I’m a lifelong Democrat. You carry the

disclaimer that the opinions of guest

columnists aren’t necessarily those of

the Journal. Well, OK. Such disclaimers

are not uncommon. Perhaps you could

reveal in a forthcoming issue which

opinions aren’t yours.

Sam Rennick

Santa Fe, New Mexico

The genesis of lawyers

Regarding Marcel Strigberger’s web

column, “A Few ‘Begats’ and ‘Thou

Shalts’: An Abbreviated History of

Lawyers,” ABAJournal.com, Feb. 15, I

believe that the  rst recorded instance

of lawyering was Abraham in Genesis

18:22-33, when he pleads on behalf of

the residents of Sodom and Gomorrah.

His plea on the law is successful, but

like many of us, he is unable to estab-

lish the necessary facts: 10 innocent

residents. No mention is made of a fee,

so this is probably also the  rst pro

bono legal work.

Herbert Lazerow

San Diego

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