News and Record: Lewis Pitts: Legal profession fails to pursue, protect justice

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Lewis Pitts: Legal profession fails to pursue, protect justice

Posted: Sunday, February 7, 2016 12:00 am

By Lewis Pitts

After being a civil rights lawyer for 43 years, I forced the N.C. Bar to let me resign rather than take “inactive status membership.” Allow me to explain why.

In the first paragraph of my 2014 resignation letter, I said: “My resignation is because I see ....

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