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Once an aspiring politician, the idea of helping those who couldn’t help themselves drew him into plaintiffs’ law.

A friend of mine, a trial lawyer, recently said to me, “I love my juries.” This was at a cocktail party and yet I was all over her in an instant.

Some 30 of us litigators trooped off to Cuba in early December under a program fully supported by the State Department. Yes, the embargo is still in effect, but, hey, even Cuba needs cultural exchanges.

March, 2000, life was good. Life was “phat,” as the kids were saying. It was certainly good for everyone in the San Mateo County courtroom. Except, of course, the plaintiff.

This article originally appeared in the magazine of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) Forum Magazine, October 2000. San Francisco personal injury lawyer and CAOC Board member. Walter “Skip” Walker published five novels from 1983 to 1992.