As a new junior associate attorney at the firm of McNamara & Reynolds, LLP, I am very eager to begin my first case. My client is Bruce Lawrence, an eight year old boy who is just one of the millions of children who fall victim to abusive child labor each year. Bruce has been working in the bean fields of Florida, six hours a day, for the past three years, earning a measly fifty cents for each barrel of beans picked. Furthermore, the fields in which he labors are surrounded by large mechanical field equipment. Although Bruce has been removed from the field and is now back in school, we at McNamara & Reynolds, LLP recognize that such issues must not be let slide, and therefore, have initiated suit against his employer, a subsidiary of Del Monte.

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