A Mind of Their Own: A Lawyers Life: Six Decades in Celebration of Some of America's Most Remarkable Entrepreneurs, Artists and Adventurers

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An attorney reflects on a life working with immensely talented clients, the result of his magnetic attraction to inventive artists, in this memoir. Curto was "born into the Golden Age of lawyerdom"--New York City in 1936--and enjoyed a career at least sparked by a measure of luck. While attending the New York Law School, the dean, Daniel Gutman, asked the author if he was related to a friend with the same name. Curto was not, but as a consequence of that brief exchange, he was then known to the dean, a relationship that ultimately led to his first legal position at Buhler, King & Buhler. The firm represented a "roster of star clients," among them Jane Pauley and Garry Trudeau. That early professional experience turned out to be decisively influential, and his career became driven by a profound attraction to creatively fertile types.