More than half of the 75 lawyers and law students who attended a recent discussion on Atticus Finch said the fictional Alabama attorney created by author Harper Lee inspired them to pursue the profession.
“I needed Atticus Finch,” said U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story, describing growing up in tiny Harlem, Georgia, in the 1950s and 1960s. “This was a sick part of the world.”
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