Please Give Me Fifty More Years Of

All Students Enter Law School With A Certain Amount Of Idealism And Desire To Serve The Public, But After Three Years Of Brutal Competition We Care For Nothing But The Right Job With The Right Firm Where We Can Make Partner In Seven Years And Earn Big Bucks.

Nobody Wants To Read About The Honest Lawyer Down The Street Who Does Real Estate Loans And Wills. If You Want To Sell Books, You Have To Write About The Interesting Lawyers - The Guys Who Steal All The Money And Take Off. That's The Fun Stuff.

I Did Get Tired Of Hearing That Criticism Years Ago. That Is Not A Compliment. Being Labeled A "beach Read" Is A Put-down. So, I Did Deliberately Set Out To Write A Book, Camino Island, That Would Be Very Entertaining And Compulsively Readable And We Published It On June 6 In Time For Summer Vacation, Hoping That People Would Buy It And Take It To The Beach.

I'm Alone And Outgunned, Scared And Inexperienced, But I'm Right.

There Is No Devious And Dangerous Life. I've Lived A Charmed Life, Especially In The Last Thirty Years Since I've Started Publishing. I've Won The Lottery. And I Keep Winning It Every Year And I Am So Fortunate To Do Something I Thoroughly Enjoy And Still Enjoy After A Bunch Of Books.