Gaius Charles Bolin Sr.: First African American male lawyer in Dutchess County, New York. He was also the first Black (male) President of the Dutchess County Bar Association. Raul Figueroa: First Hispanic American lawyer to work for Buffalo, New York.
Hong Yen Chang (1888): First Asian male lawyer (who was a Chinese immigrant) in New York Thomas H. Lee (1936): First Chinese American lawyer admitted to the New York State Bar
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Charles A. Rapallo: First Italian American male to serve on the New York Court of Appeals (1870) Benjamin N. Cardozo (1891): First Jewish male to serve on the New York Court of Appeals (1914)
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Albert Cardozo : First Jewish American male to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1867) Salvatore A. Cotillo (1912): First Italian American male appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1924)
First African American male elected as a judge in Brooklyn, New York (1953) William “Willie” Thompson: First African American male to serve as an administrative judge in Kings County, New York. Richard Rivera: First Puerto Rican male elected as the Civil Court Judge in Kings County, New York (1990)
Richard Harewood: First African American male (a lawyer) elected to a statewide office in New York (upon his election multiple times to the House of Representatives) Gilberto "Gilbert" Ramirez (c. 1957): First blind and Puerto Rican male (a lawyer) elected to the New York State Assembly (1965)
Brian Cuban, a lawyer in recovery for alcohol and drug addiction and the author of the memoir “The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of the Bar, Booze, Blow and Redemption,” would regularly show up for work drunk and do a few lines of cocaine to be able to perform.
Wil Miller, the lawyer and former methamphetamine addict, said that in his experience, law school encouraged students to take emotion out of their decisions. “When you start reinforcing that with grades and money, you aren’t just suppressing your emotions,” he said. “You’re fundamentally changing who you are.”.
Peter, one of the most successful people I have ever known, died a drug addict, felled by a systemic bacterial infection common to intravenous users. Of all the heartbreaking details of his story, the one that continues to haunt me is this: The history on his cellphone shows the last call he ever made was for work.
According to some reports, lawyers also have the highest rate of depression of any occupational group in the country. A 1990 study of more than 100 professions indicated that lawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people with other jobs. The Hazelden study found that 28 percent of lawyers suffer depression.