Richard Hammond’s partner was dying from AIDS. In the midst of the anguish he felt, watching his lover wasting away, Hammond slowly realized something.
He needed a lawyer.
Located in South Beach, Fla., four-attorney Crockett & Chasen is composed entirely of gay and lesbian lawyers. It wasn't designed as a marketing move to reach out to the area's substantial gay community, but it has worked out that way. Much of what Paul Hampton Crockett and his colleagues do is an attempt to use existing law to protect the rights of their gay and lesbian clients in a legal environment that has offered little straightforward protection for them.
April 30, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Richard Hammond’s partner was dying from AIDS. In the midst of the anguish he felt, watching his lover wasting away, Hammond slowly realized something.
He needed a lawyer.
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