Throwback Thursday - The Notebooks

To clear up some confusion, the Notebook passages posted on Throwback Thursday were written by my father and found by me after he passed away. They were his attempt to tell the family history. He was in his late 80s or early 90s when he wrote them. Today's chapter:

Our life at the time wasn't bad we were able to save money.

My association with Michael Pizziferri began to grow and he needed me. So he told another attorney who wanted to form a firm, but did not want me. The attorney told me, he said you're lucky to be needed. The reason I wasn't wanted was that a firm would have to be brought on the field. It would be 3 ways and that would cut the take. We stayed together. I did the research and petitions etc. as well as try cases and did the search for briefs that had to be filed, etc.

At one session in a chamber meeting with opposing counsel and the judge on a case we had that he was presiding.

He asked Mike a question and he was starting to go off the course. I interceded  and corrected Mike. The judge said, "Now I know how you two guys work. You make the bomb and he explodes it." Of course we denied that.

Mike's interest was the criminal law. He didn't care too much for the civil side. But there was a lot of it. The check and bonuses when we struck it rich was very helpful.

We also developed a Supreme Court case that was appealed by us.

[ed: I thought there was a picture of Dad with Mike, but I couldn't find it. Instead a view of Boston where their office was located at 68 Devonshire St. in the Financial District. The office was in walking distance of the court house, the State St. T station (subway), and the shopping district. Now known as Downtown Crossing. All very convenient especially for me. As a teen when I went in town shopping with my girlfriend and needed a few extra bucks, we'd' go to my Dad's office. He didn't like me hanging around the office as some of his clients weren't polite company for young women. So Dad would slip me some cash to get rid of me.

And that's all he wrote. We've come to the last page of the last notebook. I thank all of you who have followed Dad's saga for reading and commenting. He would have been thrilled to have an attentive audience.

I'm not sure how I will fill this space, but stay tuned.]