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Comic Monologue By Former Legal Aid Lawyer About His Days in the Bronx

Montclair Resident Labe Richman, a 57-year-old solo criminal defense lawyer in New York, will present his own one-man show inspired by Spaulding Gray on Friday at Bnai Keshet in Montclair. The community is invited. 

Richman, a congregant of Bnai Keshet in Montclair, will present “Law and Disorder: My Courthouse Stories,” a tragicomic account he wrote based on his experiences as a public defender in the South Bronx in the 1980s. He depicts a gamut of real life from the serious to the emotional and crazy to the funny.  Like the time Richman introduced himself to a client: ‘I’m your attorney,” and his client replied, “I am the Lord your God.”  To which Richman said, “Considering who you are, I think I can expedite your case.”

Inspired by real events, details have been combined from different cases, and, of course, names and facts have been changed to protect the guilty and the innocent in these stories. He first performed the hour-long show at the Judson Memorial Church in Lower Manhattan last year to benefit the Immigrant Defense Project.  

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Save for his yearly turn with Courtroom Follies – the annual show that he and his fellow attorneys and judges put together in the federal court of the Southern District – Richman devotes his energies to undoing convictions that can lead to deportations and other immigration issues. Free and open to the public.

Bnai Keshet (www.bnaikeshet.org) is a Reconstructionist synagogue serving the Greater Essex area. The synagogue is located at 99 So. Fullerton, Montclair. More information is available at 973-746-4889; bnaikeshet@bnaikeshet.org

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