“At some level, our collective interest in sharing the personal is recognition that the personal is seldom purely personal in the sense of being limited to the individual, but instead reaffirms our connection to one another and, in so doing, informs meaning. For a more comprehensive account of the life of a public interest lawyer, I suggest reading, GERALD P. LOPEZ, REBELLIOUS LAWYERING: ONE CHICANO’S VISION OF PROGRESSIVE LAW PRACTICE (1992).”

john a. powell, in RIGHTING THE LAW: SEEKING A HUMANE VOICE, 96 W. Va. L. Rev. 333 (1993-1994)