Al Farese had to be one of the most unusual lawyers who ever practiced in the United States.
In that respect, how many lawyers have been labeled at an early age as the “boy orator,” been charged with kidnapping in their twenties while serving as a city councilor, received a year sentence in federal prison for contempt because they allegedly threatened witnesses with violence, and had his law partner’s leg blown off with a car bomb outside their office—just to name a few odd occurrences in one’s law practice?"