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Close call.


On Oct. 31, the Valley legal community and citizens in general were shocked when they watched the shooting of attorney Gerald Gerald - ["Gerald: An Exceptional Lazy Functional Programming Language", A.C. Reeves et al, in Functional Programming, Glasgow 1989, K. Davis et al eds, Springer 1990].  Curry at the Van Nuys courthouse by a man whose legal financial trust Curry was representing. Curry survived the incident which was caught on videotape videotape

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 case. So the Business Journal asks local attorneys:

Does the assault make you feel more vulnerable, and/or will it change the way you deal with certain cases?

Barry Harlan Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall, and Harlan Encino

I just think it heightens the awareness that family law is an emotional field. It makes the issues more readily known. These kind of terrible incidents Harlan often happen in family law, and I certainly feel more vulnerable.

Robert Alan Adelman

Adelman and Seide LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol  Encino

I am a family law attorney like Gerald Curry and it is probably the most dangerous of all of the legal niches. Because of the high degree of emotion running through the field I'm already extremely vigilant. So no, it probably won't change me at all.

Stephen Beecher

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 Chatsworth

It's a very interesting question. Knowing that the attacker wasn't fully competent, I'd say that overall I probably don't feel more vulnerable. I don't think that the assault will yield a plethora plethora /pleth·o·ra/ (pleth´ah-rah)
1. an excess of blood.

2. by extension, a red florid complexion.pletho´ric


pleth·o·ra
n.
1.
 of assaults. You'll always have disgruntled dis·grun·tle  
tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles
To make discontented.



[dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see
 clients. I've received threats myself and I take them seriously, but I don't think it will alter the way I live my life.

Gary Ban

Alpert & Barr Encino

No, I don't think it makes me feel more vulnerable. I think most attorneys have always been cautious. I think that if it does make me more cautious then I should probably get out of the business because I might not be representing my clients properly.

Fred Gaines

Gaines & Stacey Encino

It absolutely makes me feel more vulnerable. It makes you consider certain people that you've had cases with and how heated they've gotten, to the point of where it raises worries. It might not change the way you deal with individual cases, but it will make you be cautions with those clients that clearly can't contain their emotions.
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Publication:San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Date:Nov 10, 2003
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