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One of a handful of Hispanic folklorists who have spent their careers studying the folk songs, folk theater, customs, traditions, and folkways of the Hispanic population of the Southwest.
Reed Smith's lawyers spent 6,352 hours to recover the archive of Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris, who was swindled out of his negatives.
Two years ago, American Lawyer magazine (a sister publication of the Law Journal) found that during the fat year of 1999, the approximately 50,000 lawyers at the nation's 100 highest-grossing firms spent an average of eight minutes a day on pro bono cases, or about 36 hours per year, which is down significantly from an average 56 annual hours during the recession year of 1992.
A gun crew was a skilled unit of, usually, more than ten men who spent a great deal of time practising loading, aiming, and firing their piece.
Neither had spent any substantial time in the West, and neither spoke much, if any, English.