By the time he became a lawyer, in his fifties, he was a respectable bourgeois townsman.

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After leaving show business, he became a lawyer specializing in personal injury law.

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After graduating from Harvard College, he became a lawyer.

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Born in the sprawling black township of Soweto and then trained as a lawyer, he became the first black partner at Bowman Gilfillan, a prestigious commercial law firm in Johannesburg.

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He wanted to be an attorney and he, in fact, became a Harvard-trained lawyer.

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Mr Bush plucked him from (lucrative) obscurity as a Houston property lawyer to make him his general counsel in 1995, when he became governor of Texas.

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Gongaware, under questioning by his own lawyer Friday, testified that he only became aware that Jackson was addicted to painkillers when the singer made a public announcement after his "Dangerous" tour abruptly ended so he could enter rehab in 1993.

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