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Frontier Justice: Lawyers Come West

By Jacek Wysocki - January 15, 2012

From sensational murder trials to cultural disputes with the Seneca Indians, Buffalo attorney Jacek Wysocki chronicles the development of law and the legal profession on the Western New York frontier.

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