Lawyers Protest ‘Legal Remedies’

I am writing this letter in response to a recent article, wherein, as an active member of Alcoholic Anonymous, I agreed to give an interview regarding certain matters that took place more than 10 years ago and to include the present state of my life both from a personal standpoint and professional standpoint.

It appears your reporter led me astray in not publishing the way “things are today” rather than the way things were prior to “getting my act together.”

My family and I have been back together since 1982 and are residing in Encino. I have been working in a law office the last 5 1/2 years and have recently gone through reinstatement proceedings with the State Bar; whereas, there was a recommendation that I be reinstated as a member.

I consented to the interview in order to communicate that fact to other attorneys and that there is a way to overcome various personal and professional problems prevailing in our legal profession.

Obviously, your reporter’s slanted version of my interview was for a more “sensational prospective,” rather than a view toward one overcoming the problems of his past and re-entering the mainstream of society.

I certainly hope that if a member of our “Lawyers Forum” is ever interviewed again, your paper will tell it like it is, rather than what it was in the past.

MARSHALL BITKOWER

Encino