SELF-CONFESSION

A LAWYER'S SELF-CONFESSION Some of us lawyers are far more practical than philosophical. I recall being in the U. S. Virgin Islands in the 1990s, looking out of the window at the waves in the vast, lovely Caribbean Sea, when a fellow lawyer who was attending the same NBA "Solo Practice" seminar as me, with whom I had been conversing on recondite legal matters, smiled at me, as he said: "Larry, you are a brilliant lawyer, you are truly brilliant ! But, Larry, how are you going to get paid?" Ding! I stopped. Reflected, then burst out laughing! I had not the "faintest idea", I admitted to him, except to continue to do, the best that I knew to do, leaving it to God.