It was a mistake, he said, because he was quickly disillusioned of his idea that the law was a path to right the wrongs of the world. It was, he quickly realized, “a tool to maintain the comfortable status quo.”
The story our father told us many years on was that one of the first cases put before the first-year students was a court ruling holding that the pilot of an aircraft having trouble making it over a mountain range in bad weather had broken his contract to his clients by dumping their cargo over the side in a desperate, but successful, effort to remain aloft.