Posted on Sep 1, 2022
This 72-year-old lawyer thinks about retirement, but rural Kansas can't find enough attorneys
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Charles Peckham works 70 hours a week as an attorney. He’s 72.
He daydreams about retirement. But if he closed up shop, clients would just show up at his home in Atwood, Kansas.
“(Stopping) is not workable at this point,” he said.
The next closest attorney is 30 miles away. That might not be accessible for the older population in need of legal help.
Atwood boasted six attorneys, counting Peckham, when he first arrived in 1983, but that number has dwindled down to two and the other attorney farms on the side.
He daydreams about retirement. But if he closed up shop, clients would just show up at his home in Atwood, Kansas.
“(Stopping) is not workable at this point,” he said.
The next closest attorney is 30 miles away. That might not be accessible for the older population in need of legal help.
Atwood boasted six attorneys, counting Peckham, when he first arrived in 1983, but that number has dwindled down to two and the other attorney farms on the side.
This 72-year-old lawyer thinks about retirement, but rural Kansas can't find enough attorneys
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