The Law: Willing to Please

Woodstock, Vt., is the very model of the picturesque New England country town. It has a tranquil village green, stately brick and stone houses, and a postcard vista of the ski slopes in the adjoining hills. So it is only natural that outside investors (notably Laurance Rockefeller) have bought property there, and that the population of 1,150 includes a sizable proportion of writers, artists and wealthy exurbanites.

It was just as natural that James Wright, a dapper young lawyer from Detroit, should settle on Woodstock ten years ago as a good place to practice....

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