On June 7th, federal judges from the District of Massachusetts and the First Circuit, along with one Justice of the Supreme Court, several non-judicial dignitaries, approximately 50 former law clerks, family, and friends, gathered in the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston's Seaport District to say goodbye to United States District Judge Joseph L. Tauro. The judge, for whom I had the great privilege of serving as law clerk from 1979 to 1980, had passed away in November after a long illness, and on this beautiful day at a beautiful venue overlooking Boston Harbor, those of us who knew and loved him finally had the opportunity to come together to pay our respects. Judge Tauro served more than 40 years on the bench and was a man of his times - a Nixon-appointed Republican who loved sporty cars, the music of Frank Sinatra, and the politics of Ronald Reagan. Yet he also was a man for all times, someone who believed in the power of his office, armed with the commit
Meditations on Law and Life