Say I’m at a dinner party and receive the typical New York question: “What do you do?” If I say, “I’m a lawyer,” I’ll receive knowing responses, because everyone knows (or thinks they know) what a lawyer is and does. Other times, though, I might say, “I’m a civil rights lawyer.” Here the reaction is different: “How exciting!” or in more recent years, “Thank you.”

The next question usually follows: “But what do civil rights lawyers do?”

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