News accounts of lawyers, including ones on this blog, tilt heavily to lawyer-gone-bad stories. So these stories (reg reqd) are welcome.
"When prosecutor Paul Cummins retires this summer, attorneys say, the San Francisco district attorney's office will lose a longtime mentor and the criminal defense bar a trusted liaison. ....
"Cummins has long been the 'unofficial liaison' between the defense bar and the DA's office, said [defense attorney] Rappaport, who praised the prosecutor as professional, open-minded and exceedingly fair."