When Murray Shusterman graduated from law school at Temple University in 1936 during the Great Depression, he had no luck finding work. “I couldn’t get a job to pay me a dime,” he says. Because the Pennsylvania Law Examiners’ Office at the time required law graduates to complete a preceptorship before practicing, Shusterman worked for a local lawyer for six months without pay as a “gofer,” fetching cigarettes and coffee for his superiors.
Today, Shusterman, the 102-year-old senior counsel at Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia, has been a practicing lawyer for 79 years. He has new concerns.
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