Sad day

I was saddened this morning to open the newspaper and learn that the federal judge who I clerked for after law school, Harry MacLaughlin, died on Tuesday. I was his last, full-time law clerk. I was hired to serve a one-year term, from September 1992 to August 1993. However, in the spring of 1993, he decided to retire as of January 1994, and he asked me to stay on for a few additional months.

There is much that I could say, but I will leave it at this: I have appeared before at least 100 judges in the past 11 years, and his intelligence, diligence, and inherent sense of fairness made him the best I have ever seen.