Erwin Simon, one of the first Michigan Supreme Court law clerks, talks about his professional and personal relationship with Justice Henry Butzel, his youth in Lansing, Michigan, his time at the University of Michigan Law School and having a very difficult time finding a job in 1937, during the Great Depression. He also describes accepting an offer to clerk for Butzel, his duties in that position, his close personal relationship with the Justice and his family and finally marrying Butzel's daughter. Simon says that meeting Justice Butzel was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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