Dignity Rights for Mrs. Doubtfire: A Place for Fathers in Custody Disputes
Dignity Rights for Mrs. Doubtfire: A Place for Fathers in Custody DisputesFrank Taddeo Jr., New York Law Journal
July 7, 2016
Searching for Character in the Practice of Law
The demonization of attorneys in popular media continues unabated. This time, a New York Post article on Matter of Wiesner[1], about an individual who, 22 years after imprisonment for serious crimes, 17 years after passing the New York State Bar Exam and numerous failed applications, was finally admitted to legal practice by a New York State Appellate Division panel. “Crook Demoted to Lawyer: Ex-con makes NY Bar”, the headline trumpeted. [2]LEAVENING LAW WITH LITERATURE
By “literature” in the classic sense, we mean those works that by popularity, influence, and durability have stood the test of time. They include the monuments of Western culture – the Judeo-Christian Bible, and works by Homer, the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Melville, and Hugo, among many others, but also those of innumerable writers of lesser texts, including popular fiction, etched in memory and passed along to succ