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A stricter ethical code for the legal profession would enable certain briefless lawyers to forge to the front.

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I found myself more than once in a toilet stall on a lower-floor bathroom of the brand-new Green Building on the MIT campus, cleaning myself up, throwing away my undergarment, and going to class briefless. I soon learned to carry paper so I wouldn't have to rely on those skimpy toilet tissues, and extra underwear, giving my "brief" case a very private meaning.

`It is well known that the judges have been to a great degree selected from the ranks of the briefless', the anonymous writer observed: `There are some able men on the County Court bench, but there are others who are quite unequal to their duties'.