Guest columnist Goldberg saluted Mandela, other greats

We are still being flooded with deserved tributes to Nelson Mandela. We wish some of those paying tribute in eulogy had spoken better of this extraordinary man when he was alive.

Many did, however. One of the most notable such essays we’ve seen was fashioned two years before Mandela’s death and was written by our eminent colleague Evan M. Goldberg. A true trial lawyer, Goldberg envisioned a scene where Mandela would join Mahatma Gandhi and President Abraham Lincoln in the pursuit of justice.

The Goldberg piece was produced ante lite motem – before a motive to misrepresent – and appeared in Bill of Particulars, a magazine for lawyers published through the New York State Trial Lawyers Assn.

Read the column here.