In his previous life as a practicing attorney, Barry Schindel approached his profession as if he were a performer in "the theater of the courtroom." But after a dozen years as a Bronx public defender and in private practice, an emotionally drained Schindel needed a change of venue. "I remember thinking, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in pitched battle," he says. "I'd rather write about it."
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