Jean Dubofsky knows supreme courts. She became the first female justice on the Colorado Supreme Court in 1979, and, as an appellate lawyer, was lead counsel for the plaintiffs in overturning the Amendment 2 case (Romer v. Evans) before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. In the latest issue of Colorado Super Lawyers & Rising Stars magazine, in a Q&A entitled "Lone Ranger," we talk with Ms. Dubofsky about her extensive career, the difficulty of being a judge, and how much longer she'll practice law.
What follows is the first of two blog-exclusive excerpts from that interview. The first can be read here.
Any advice for young lawyers?
If they are interested in doing public law, as opposed to private law, and they finish law school and they're so much in debt that they have to do commercial work to pay their bills, well, just go for the public jobs. Find them. Keep working through them. Working for local governments or state governments really provides interesting work; and it provides enough money that you can live a nice life.
It's also a good way to develop powerful contacts.
Oh yes. And you find that you're not just stuck in one office for the rest of your life. If you start working on water projects, well, in the west, water is really important, and there are a whole lot of things you can be involved in that have water policy issues.
The latest issue of New Jersey Super Lawyers & Rising Stars magazine is now available online, as a digital magazine, and, of course, in print.
Cover subject Domenick Carmagnola, an employment lawyer at Carmagnola & Ritardi, found the recipe for success young in life, while working at his family's Italian restaurant.
"It taught me how to engage with people," Carmagnola says in the cover story. "It was very helpful for me when I was finally trying cases." The once-shy New Jersey native is now known for his people skills, especially when defending companies before juries.
We also hear from feature subject Raymond Gill Jr., who practices personal injury law at Gill & Chamas.
"This is not rocket science," he insists. "It's just preparation. Preparation and imagination and the drive to succeed." Gill is renowned for his use of high technology -- and old-fashioned passion. He once fell to his knees, begging jurors to help his client. (They did.)
Real estate attorney Lloyd Tubman with Archer & Greiner talks in her feature about her efforts to help religious groups break down barriers. She went back to school at age 32 to get her bachelor's degree, and the someone late start launched a meteoric career.
"Real estate law keeps you on your feet, always reading people, always figuring out different personalities," she says. "It stays complicated, which means it stays interesting."
Feature subject Michael A. Gill, a family law attorney at?Goldenberg Mackler Sayegh Mintz Pfeffer Bonchi & Gill, has blue-collar roots. A former boxer and bricklayer, he has combined book smarts and street smarts into a highly successful practice. But he is not one to incite hostilities in an already highly charged area of the law.
"I don't want a father making custody an issue if he doesn't really want custody and is just trying to hurt his ex-wife," Gill says. "I tell people, 'My job is to minimize your exposure and get a fair amount.' "
We also check in with business litigator Keith Biebelberg, with Biebelberg & Martin, who fought for his clients after the developer of their condo put up another building that blocked their panoramic views of Manhattan.
Litigator Christine Vassiliou Harvey, with?Lomurro Davison Eastman & Mu?oz, tells how she learned the tactical art of negotiation while working for the Navy.
Jean Dubofsky knows supreme courts. She became the first female justice on the Colorado Supreme Court in 1979, and, as an appellate lawyer, was lead counsel for the plaintiffs in overturning the Amendment 2 case (Romer v. Evans) before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996. In the latest issue of Colorado Super Lawyers & Rising Stars magazine, in a Q&A entitled "Lone Ranger," we talk with Ms. Dubofsky about her extensive career, the difficulty of being a judge, and how much longer she'll practice law.
What follows is the first of two blog-exclusive excerpts from that interview.
You're a member of a lot of bar associations and legal organizations. Is there one that's been particularly helpful or useful to you?
I've really been unhappy with myself sometimes. I've never been very involved in bar association activities. I belong. But I've never really been involved. Mostly because of time. I've been on boards of other organizations, and some of them I've been more involved in than others.
Such as?
There are a couple of public policy groups in Denver--one called the Bell Policy Center, of which I was one of the founding members. It was designed to develop policies that were more progressive for state legislators and local government in the state. They're still doing it.
Source: http://blog.superlawyers.com/2012/03/advice-to-young-lawyers-jean-dubofsky.shtml
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