The Best Lawyer In a One-Lawyer Town
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Bill Bryk knows when to start a case on behalf of others... and has learned when to rest.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | This is our American stories. |
| 0:17.1 | And up next, a story from one of our regular contributors, who also happens to be a lawyer, |
| 0:21.6 | Bill Breike. Some people don't have the highest view of lawyers. Well, lots of people don't. |
| 0:27.6 | But not every lawyer is an ambulance chaser. Let's listen to Bill Brick. |
| 0:36.6 | I understand I'm the only active practicing lawyer in rural and from New Hampshire. |
| 0:41.3 | That may make me the best lawyer in a one-lawyer town. |
| 0:46.3 | I was writing one Saturday morning when a neighbor telephoned with a problem. |
| 0:51.3 | Her 17-year-old daughter had received a speeding ticket a little after 3 p.m. on December 4th, |
| 0:58.0 | 2017. She'd been driving a friend to a medical appointment in Concord, New Hampshire. |
| 1:03.0 | She was more concerned for her passenger than the speed limit. |
| 1:06.0 | She didn't notice the speed limit had dropped from 65 to 50. |
| 1:10.0 | She was barreling along at 75, anyway. She was stopped in Hennecker, a small She didn't notice the speed limit had dropped from 65 to 50. |
| 1:10.8 | She was barreling along at 75, anyway. |
| 1:13.5 | She was stopped in Henneker, a small town on Route 202, the main road between Antrim and |
| 1:18.4 | Concord. |
| 1:20.1 | The traffic stop was just bad luck. |
| 1:22.7 | An acquaintance that lives in my town is a self-confessed leadfoot. |
| 1:26.9 | Antrim's constabulary had stopped him twice during the last two years. Each time he was |
| 1:31.6 | cautioned to slow down and sent on his way without a ticket. The Henneker |
| 1:36.1 | police apparently exercised their discretion differently. She paid the fine. There |
| 1:43.4 | were two things she didn't know about New Hampshire traffic law, which I too didn't |
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