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Dear Editor:

I want to express my disappointment in a law.com article published on 07-17-2002 entitled "The Snakehead Lawyers" by Elizabeth Amon of the National Law Journal."

I had expected that an organization like law.com should have the interests of justice and fairness at the heart of their mission. The article was misleading, as if it were an ethical violation to provide immigration legal services to individuals because the attorney happens to know that they were illegally smuggled into the US. There are many very honorable members of the immigration bar that are doing just that and are advancing the interests of human rights, not pecuniary gain.

While I'm sure that there are a small number of attorneys that might engage in such reprehensible conduct, the article was very one sided, smearing the image of both the immigration bar and, worse, the plight of those disadvantaged refugees that are the clients of "The Snakehead Lawyers."

Thomas W. Dean, JD
Immigration Attorney



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