I started working with a Pawtucket lawyer and had an evening office in the Maciel Building in East Providence. The office was on the second floor of the building that used to house the Maciel Brothers Market. The Pawtucket lawyer, Edwin Halpert, was well known in the collection business and before long I had made an appearance in most of the district courts trying collection cases. Within three months I “won” a case involving $36,000 in Kent County. Some of the lawyers who knew I had just started practicing congratulated me. The only problem was that the defendant was broke and could never pay and we were merely looking for a decision in court for the plaintiff.
While I was taking the bar review course, the two lawyers who gave the course used to check our notes on a regular basis, and both of them had congratulated me on my notes. (I’m not sure if I mentioned it earlier, but my college professor at Providence College had said the same.) But my only claim to fame as an attorney was that the two lawyers-to-be who used my bar review notes became judges, (one the chief justice), and later both resigned because of misconduct in office!
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