May 15, 2002
Florida Lawyers Assistance
Comments by Judge Hoeveler:
"I think one of the basic problems of
our profession and all professions is
a loss of individual spirituality. This may offend some people,
but when I
read about the history of this country and the way our
Constitution was
formed … I think about the reasons why lawyers do what they do.
And for a
lot of them, it is because they have no compass that is directing
them. They
have no internal direction. And that's becoming more and more
pervasive….
And this is something we never talk about. We would like to
relegate this to
the parlors of homes and so forth. But it is a problem that we've
got to
address and think about. We have lost touch. And I don't care
what kind of
spiritual values you have - whatever you are is unimportant - but
the fact
that we are living in an increasingly technological and material
world which
has no time or room for these thoughts is, I think, one of the
deepest
problems that we as lawyers face."
Hon. William Hoeveler,
U.S. District Court, So. District of Florida
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