1) The document summarizes the life and career of Carl R. Pipoly, an attorney who passed away on September 28, 2014.
2) It describes his many accomplishments, including swimming the English Channel and winning over 125 trials.
3) The document also discusses Pipoly's character, praising his decorum, respect, courtesy, and humility even when dealing with pompous members of the legal profession. It notes that with his passing, "a light went out."
1) The document summarizes the life and career of Carl R. Pipoly, an attorney who passed away on September 28, 2014.
2) It describes his many accomplishments, including swimming the English Channel and winning over 125 trials.
3) The document also discusses Pipoly's character, praising his decorum, respect, courtesy, and humility even when dealing with pompous members of the legal profession. It notes that with his passing, "a light went out."
1) The document summarizes the life and career of Carl R. Pipoly, an attorney who passed away on September 28, 2014.
2) It describes his many accomplishments, including swimming the English Channel and winning over 125 trials.
3) The document also discusses Pipoly's character, praising his decorum, respect, courtesy, and humility even when dealing with pompous members of the legal profession. It notes that with his passing, "a light went out."
In Memoriam: Carl R Pipoly Not Published By The Texas Bar Journal Or The San Antonio Lawyer
On 28 September 2014 Carl R. Pipoly departed this life and the world became a more boring and lonelier place. His achievements cannot be overstated from his swimming the English Channel to the more than 125 trials from which all but a few he emerged victorious. Those few of his losses were redeemed by the appellate courts. In this regard one is reminded of the common law maxim in ipsissimis verbis: "Every man is presumed to know the law except Her Majesty's judges. To correct their errors we have the law lords." A Lord Chancellor of England once said that "it is easy to make a lawyer. You just start with a gentleman if you can teach him a little law so much the better." Carl was both a gentleman and a realist yet in him one could discern something rare in a lawyer the complex nature of the romantic. Among men of learning and intelligence his decorum and sense of fair play was unsurpassed. He spoke, behaved and treated people with respect, courtesy and humility without undermining his own eminence and dignity. He may at times have treated pompous, arrogant and greedy members of the bench and bar with a measure of contempt but in his relations with other people he was a model of warm human feelings and decency. He appeared thoroughly manly; even unyielding and hard in everything he did yet at the same time there was a playfulness about him a youthful profusion of possibilities. Plotinus’ work still has the power to soothe and surcease pain. There is a curious comfort in his sadness. Even his passage: "Life here with the things of earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing." And the wing has failed. We sink. Death is certain. What else, we wonder is there? With Carl a light went out and now little remains but to await the ultimate darkness and hope for a new sun and another day. His time was painfully short, a noonday of glory; a day no longer followed by night; a life that no longer fears death, even death itself because death has overcome death and because whoever has suffered the first death will no longer fear the second. Ben Bradlee, the famed editor of the Washington Post , wrote in his diary of his life long friend and lawyer Edward Bennett Williams who had died years before: "So often when a crisis had arisen I would reach for my telephone and instinctively dial his number. And before I could finish my heart would break when I realized that my old friend was gone." Carl's friends will know this heartbreak. In closing here is a stanza of Carl's favorite poem, The Garden of Proserpine by A.C. Swinburne: "From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."
Taken by E. Schroeder on the Thames River Fall 2010
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