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...school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety, the dean of decent citizens...
...University's students and faculty. With Macy's gone and the Chapel Square Mall over-run by "inner city youth," most of the retail action has moved closer to the University. The Gap and Laura Ashley are just two of the retail outlets flourishing thanks to Yale. The Atticus Book Store, at 1082 Chapel Street (next door to Yale's British Art Museum) caters to bibliophiles of every sort. Grab a cappuchino in the recently added and immensely popular cafe inside the store...
...Students enter law school because they want tobe like Atticus Finch...[but] at graduation mostgo to corporate law firms," says Kahlenberg,referring to the legal hero of Harper Lee's toKill A Mockingbrid...
...Many first-year law students enter wanting to be Atticus Finch and leave wanting to be Arnie Becker," Kahlenberg said, referring to the idealistic lawyer in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and the materialistic lawyer...
...HAVEN--The scene: Atticus, one of those bookstore-cafes where chic people gather over cappacino and Kant. Matthew J. Reich, in his white and gray shirt, thin silver tie, and gray pin-stripe pants, looks as if he has just stepped off the pages of GQ. He blends in nicely with the wet slate-gray of the New Haven sidewalk outside...