"Proud to Be a Lawyer"

Week of August 4, 2003

Randolph I. Gordon

WSBA Eighth District Governor-Elect, from "The Lawyer as Hero: A Pride of Lions, A Justice of Lawyers," Bar News, June 1999, p. 30

"I know we are integral to what makes the American experiment work. I am proud of the work we have done. I am proud of our contribution to the public discourse and the analysis we bring to issues of public concern. I am proud of our review and comment respecting proposed legislative initiatives. I am proud of our work on behalf of civic and charitable organizations, however humble. I am proud of our support for the rights of our clients, the rights of the public, and the court system. I am proud of our work on behalf of the dispossessed, the disempowered, the oppressed.

"I am proud of being part of a collective noun with my colleagues: a justice of lawyers."