arturo is one of the top trial lawyers in the nation and he's a partner at morrison forester. we've had the pleasure of working with the bar association for -- over the past 20 years to provide services to people who can't afford lawyers when the public defender is not available and so we're very pleased to have arturo here on behalf of the bar association. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. three days ago in one of the most closely watched supreme court cases this term, graham versus florida, the united states superior court forbid the sentences of a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a non-homicide crime. they found such a sentence is consistent with basic principles of decency. i'm proud to say that my firm was co-counsel for the juvenile in this case and wrote the brief for the juvenile in the court. this decision gives our clients, terrance graham, who had received the sentence of life without the possibility of parole. the bad acts he committed as a teenager are not representative of his true character and gives him some realistic opportuni

the big story was you about a crisis they were having at morrison and forester i ended up getting a job another magazine which ended about the demise and and i was writing shark tank and while it was at legal times i had an idea for writing a story about one of the lawyers of williamson connelly who i thought has had greatest dream job in the history of law, which was running a baseball team and that was larry lakino and i was over to his office and he was the president of the baltimore orioles. and larry -- i got almost all through the story till the end of the story, and then somebody i was interviewing about larry said, oh, i guess you know about his illness and i was like, oh, yeah, sure, sure. the illness. that's terrible and so anyway i began to piece together the story of how at the age of 39 years old, larry had been stricken with non-hodgkin's lymphoma and had -- and was the 36th person in the history of medicine to have a bone transplant. and while he was -- and while he was in recovery, his miraculous recovery from this illness, he -- he had -- he went to the dana farber canc