Joshua Kaufman keeps his faded law school I.D. card on his desk to help him stay grounded. The card from 1975 shows him as a third-year law student sporting dark hair that hangs past his shoulders. The former hippie is now a partner at Venable in Washington, but he says he never wants to forget his roots.

Kaufman, a 1972 arts and drama graduate from University of Maryland, initially had no intention of practicing law. But to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, he enrolled in George Washington University Law School that same year.

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