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28 the philadelphia lawyer Winter 2015 from the Marine Corps. I have found out in combat that those who you think should have the correct answers don't always have them. In combat, bad information or lack of information gets people killed. Therefore, my style is to tell everyone what is going on so that they have as much information as possible. I have found that the correct answer can come from many sources. So I seek input from everyone involved. To give a military analogy, I may have to say, "we have to take this hill." I am not going to tell you how to take the hill. It may not be a frontal assault, it may be we sneak up on them in the middle of the night. You tell me how we should do it, it's your rear end on the line. al, you have such an impressive record of service to the larger community and the Bar association, at this point in your career, why was it important for you to become Chancellor? As you and I discussed many years ago, I like to be in the room when "stuff" can happen to people. I care about our community, the Bar Association and members of the bench and bar. I want to be in the room to make sure "bad stuff" does not happen to any of them. Your legal career spans 36 years and you've been a member of the Bar association for 31 years, what differences have you seen in the profession and the association? What's better? What's different? I, like so many others, believe that the practice of law is becoming more of a business than a profession. But I also believe that that tension has been around for a while. It is a complicated issue that has no simple answer. I do not think there is the same camaraderie amongst our members, nor the legal profession as a whole, the way there used to be, because we do not know each other like we used to. I believe that part of the reason was that many years ago, the bar and Bar Association used to be populated by men who stayed in their ethnic and practice silos. Today, the bench, bar, our practices and the Bar Association are much more diverse. This I care about our community, the Bar Association and members of the bench and bar. I want to be in the room to make sure "bad stuff" does not happen to any of them.