He is busy selling his vision to the Legislature and to the rest of South Dakota. Thinking big thoughts and turning them into reality is a heroic effort and it is what many lawyers do for their clients and their communities. Lawyers have been serving on city library boards, they have been active in service clubs, they are leaders in their church, they carry water for little league baseball, they help build churches and buy organs. He or she was an advisor in the truest sense of the word, a trusted counselor to clients who more often than not were also family, friends or neighbors. Socrates pointed out more than 2,400 years ago that orators were distinct and different from teachers.
Orators merely persuade rather than enlighten.
Lawyers referred to herein know who they are, and they know that they are more than persuaders. They help enlighten our public and serve our communities. These lawyers, in addition to their private practice, serve the public, defend the disadvantaged, and make civil and criminal justice systems work. Lawyers are among the great traditional heroes of America. Lawyers, by their oaths, are called upon to do heroic acts for their clients and their communities.