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Oddly, a lot of people showed up wanting to share the stream, and the folks who were there first got concerned enough to bring out their lawyers.

One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.

We are doctors, we are lawyers, we are teachers, we are scientists, we are engineers.

And I founded International Bridges to Justice which has a specific mission of ending torture as an investigative tool and implementing due process rights in the 93 countries by placing trained lawyers at an early stage in police stations and in courtrooms.

And even 20 years later, there was only 10 lawyers in the country, so consequently you'd walk into a prison and not only would you meet 12-year-old boys, you'd meet women and you'd say, "Why are you here?"

So lawyers began to courageously stand up together to organize a system where they can take cases.

But we realized that it's not only the training of the lawyers, but the connection of the lawyers that makes a difference.

For example, in Cambodia, it was that [inaudible name] did not go alone but she had 24 lawyers with her who stood up together.

And with that, he successfully organized 68 lawyers who have been systematically taking the cases.

I was recently in Egypt, and was inspired to meet with another group of lawyers, and what they told me is that they said, "Hey, look, we don't have police on the streets now.

Lawyers can come at the police station.

So the pieces are, not only the training of the lawyers, but us finding a way to systematically implement early access to counsel, because they are the safeguard in the system for people who are being tortured.

And I was sitting side by side with one of our very courageous lawyers, and said, "How can we get this out?

We had to worry about the lawyers and so on.

Sixty-five percent of their open job opportunities are non-technical: marketers, designers, project managers, program managers, product managers, lawyers, HR specialists, trainers, coaches, sellers, buyers, on and on.

And even divorce lawyers, who should really know better, hugely underestimate their own likelihood of divorce.

The lawyers might file a clemency petition, they might initiate even more complex litigation, or they might not do anything at all.

So what all of these death row inmates had to do was rely on volunteer lawyers to handle their legal proceedings.

The problem is that there were way more guys on death row than there were lawyers who had both the interest and the expertise to work on these cases.

Some of these lawyers were successful; they managed to get new trials for their clients.

What's happened is that lawyers who represent death row inmates have shifted their focus to earlier and earlier chapters of the death penalty story.

All that I want to tell you is that the reason that this has happened is because death penalty lawyers have understood that the earlier you intervene in a case, the greater the likelihood that you're going to save your client's life.

That's probably a topic that is best reserved for a room full of lawyers and judges.

Now, conventional wisdom says, "Well, hey, our intellectual property belongs to us, and if someone tries to infringe it, we're going to get out our lawyers and we're going to sue them."

They were lawyers, journalists, priests, they all said: "We don't want this."

I said, "Your honor," and I don't know whether I was emboldened by the scientific measurements that I had in my pocket and my knowledge that they are accurate, or whether it was just sheer stupidity, which is what the defense lawyers thought — (Laughter) — when they heard me say, "Yes, Your Honor, I want you stand right there and I want the car to go around the block again and I want it to come and I want it to stop right in front of you, three to four feet away, and I want the passenger to extend his hand with a black object and point it right at you, and you can look at it as long as you want."

I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground, as if it were somehow Kryptonite, as if it were a time bomb strapped on the inside.

Way too much money, I just can't even go there, with lawyers, trying to figure out how this is different, who's responsible to whom, and the result was that we were able to provide owners protection for their own driving records and their own history.

That's the word lawyers use.

And now forgive me, I'm going to read the next bit because it's a very live issue, and our lawyers have been through this in some detail and they want me to get it right.

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