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“Wild horses couldn’t keep him away when he saw injustice. The fact he showed up in a wheelchair, or crawling, reflects his commitment to fighting injustice.”

Robert Eugene Pincham, Jr., on his father, former appellate court justice R. Eugene Pincham, and his dedication to causes even when he was fighting cancer in his last months; the elder Pincham died April 3 in Chicago

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“If every ‘kvetch’ of the type set forth by the plaintiff in its pleadings triggered a duty to report, insurance carriers could not get out of their own way in the face of a deluge of ‘potential claims’.”

New Jersey lawyer William Voorhees, in a brief on behalf of a lawyer client whose malpractice carrier wants a federal court to rule it has no duty to defend a case because the lawyer failed to report a client’s ‘displeasure’ with a settlement General Star National Insurance Co. v. Law Offices of Robert A. Olkowitz P.C.

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“There’s a stigma. Lawyers are scared. I know of (depressed lawyers) who are paying therapists in cash because they don’t want a paper trail. And there are kids in law school who refuse to go and get help because, inevitably, they would have to answer truthfully on some form that asks, ‘Have you ever been treated for mental illness?’”

Former NY county judge Michael Miller, now a lecturer for the first national seminar, held April 11, to assist lawyers with depression, including a Web site - http://www.lawyerswithdepression.com.

Note: The Lawyers’ Assistance Program in Illinois offers help with depression as well as chemical dependencies