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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Defeated for a second term as governor in 2002, Roy E. Barnes decided against taking one of the positions offered him by large law firms around town. He went to work for Atlanta Legal Aid Society, getting no pay and representing people like Alfredia Webb.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

It was May 1954 when a fifth-grade teacher in Cartersville asked her students that classic question: What do you want to be when you grow up?

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Jim Butler had been in business as a solo practitioner for a single day in 1979 when he took a phone call from Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley Walraven, whose campaign he'd helped run three years earlier. Walraven told Butler that a woman whose brother had been hurt badly in a car wreck had been trying to reach him.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

When N. Jerold Cohen began work as chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service, he asked staff what publications he'd need to keep up with tax law developments.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

For Ben F. Johnson III, there was no doubt he'd become a lawyer. "Some of my earliest memories are of my father taking me to court with him," he says.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

The idea of throwing herself into bar activities didn't come quickly to Linda A. Klein, slated to become president-elect of the American Bar Association this year and president in 2016.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

When told she couldn't come to court, a white girl in a Southern town sneaked up to the courtroom's "colored" balcony in the 1930s to see her father defend an unpopular client.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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June 17, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Clay C. Long's best year in his professional life happened at his first law job, 52 years ago. He clerked for Justice Hugo Black the year Black wrote the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says states must provide lawyers for poor people charged with crimes.

By Ann Woolner | Special to the Daily Report

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