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Does experience count?

In reference to your July article on senior attorneys and the aspects of retirement: From my perception, no mention was made of the value of acquired real life experience. Does that have any continued practical value to the legal profession?

Draper Gregory
Chico

Never too late

I found it amusing and not a little ironic to see a front-page article on lawyers retiring, with a graphic emphasizing the percentage of the bar aged 55 or older, in the first copy of the California Bar Journal I ever received. This shortly after being sworn in, having passed the first and only bar exam I ever took, in February 2007, at age 58.

Perhaps one of those old retiring lawyers could swap jobs with me, so we both could continue to be gainfully employed.

Mic DeNiro
(soon to be) Professor Emeritus of Stable Isotopy
University of California, Santa Barbara

It’s Geraldo’s fault

I have a two-word response to Daniel Campbell's comment in his letter in the July Bar Journal, in which he states that “[t]he glamour of TV law programs and silly female TV talk lawyers have destroyed the legal profession.”

Geraldo Rivera.

Lesli Marie Hogan
Thousand Oaks

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