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The Making of a Country Lawyer: An Autobiography
by
Gerry Spence
The Making of a Country Lawyer
is the firsthand account of a beloved American attorney, a modern-day folk hero, a man who has devoted his life's work to the downtrodden and damned. It is the story of a wayward son who, at the age of twenty, suffered an immense and tragic loss. It is this single dark moment in Spence's life that transformed him, preparing him to be a trial
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Paperback
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448 pages
Published
October 15th 1997
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 1996)
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this is a surprisingly good book written by a pretty remarkable man
I have been touched by this man's childhood, adulthood, career and traditions. He is only 20 years older than I. I am now in law school.
I really don't want to be in law school. Like myself he did, and then he didn't. I liked the rugged life he had, learning how to do so many things that today is taken for granted. Hunting for your own food, canning, sewing clothes out of hides (done by his mother), how he saw her as an angel but not a loving emotionally giving angel but as a servant of God.
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I really don't want to be in law school. Like myself he did, and then he didn't. I liked the rugged life he had, learning how to do so many things that today is taken for granted. Hunting for your own food, canning, sewing clothes out of hides (done by his mother), how he saw her as an angel but not a loving emotionally giving angel but as a servant of God.
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Along with Ben Bradlee's
A Good Life
, this is one of my favorite autobiographies. The stories Spence tells as he grows and matures into one of the most successful defense attorney's ever make for an amusing read. A foray into the life of someone I didn't know before picking this book up, I was drawn to the stories from his youth and the lessons he learned from his parents, as well as what he learned from the professors and others he encounters in law school and beyond. There was even one person
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I always knew he was a great trial lawyer, I had no idea he was such an incredible writer. His words blew me away. He is so descriptive I was back picking choke cherries in my youth. I was grieving my mothers passing. I relished his criticism of law school training. I remembered the first jury trial I ever attended I was the prosecutor. He tells it like it was for a country lawyer.
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The Making of a Country Lawyer: An Autobiography by Gerry Spence (1997)
Author seems smug, and I don't like his style of writing.
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Gerry Spence is a trial lawyer in the United States. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence did not lose a criminal case in the over 50 years he practiced law. He started his career as a prosecutor and later became a successful defense attorney for the insurance industry. Years later, Spence said he "saw the light" and becam
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