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why did i become a lawyer why did i
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decide i made that decision a very long
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time ago when i was a kid
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and my best answer to that is
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i made the decision to be a lawyer
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because
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i thought i wanted to help people
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certainly my family my friends i think
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we live in a society where
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unfortunately you need to know a lawyer
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sometime in your life but also and as my
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practice has gone on
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i find i gravitate to uh
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david against goliath let’s say you know
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i started life in a big law firm
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after five years of representing large
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companies for the most part
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i switched over and started doing class
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action litigation
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an awful lot of security fraud
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litigation and you know investors with
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100 shares taking on big companies and
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i’ve kind of continued that i don’t do
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the security fraud cases anymore but i
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find
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that i’m i’m in business disputes uh one
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of the things that
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brought peter and me together is we were
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adversaries twice
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30 35 years ago and as as
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you can tell we have very different
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styles but we also view the world very
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similarly
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and that is i’d like to think i hold
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myself to
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a very high ethical and professional
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standard
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and i like to think that i put my
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clients interests ahead of my own
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and i know peter views the world the
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same way which is why
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we collaborate so much now and why uh
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we are of counsel to each other’s firms