For nearly three years, I’ve had the remarkable opportunity to interview interesting, successful attorneys about their careers and to learn from them the advice they wish they had received earlier in their career and want to pass on to young lawyers today. I was ready to conduct the next interview—with a well-known attorney—when I was unexpectedly invited to a book party. The author being celebrated was a man I didn’t know: Rich Esposito. But the subject of his book was someone I had admired from afar: the newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin.