Editor’s note: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was published 50 years ago this month. It tells the story of Atticus Finch, an attorney appointed to represent Tom Robinson, a young African-American man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. The book became an American classic, and Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for best actor for his portrayal in the 1962 screen adaptation.
Back in 2005, to mark the book’s 45th anniversary, Texas Lawyer asked lawyers across the state when they first realized they wanted to become attorneys. Such moments matter because these are the ties that bind the legal profession together. Contributors e-mailed what we dubbed their “Atticus Finch moments,” which were edited for length and style, and provided photos of themselves at the time of their moments.
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