Mark Twain, “Stirring Times in Austria”
We pulled for the underdog in our family when I was growing up, and I assumed everyone else did too. Imagine my shock when I learned there were people who weren’t from the Bronx who cheered for the Yankees. Despite my upbringing, I spent close to a decade representing insurance companies and large corporations, “defending the uptrodden,” as a public defender friend described it, before the gap between what I believed and what I did for a living became too wide to paper over. To Fight for Another tells some of the stories you hear when you try to be a voice for people who can’t make themselves be heard. A Fool on Average tells some other kinds of stories about the law.