Interview with Tom Kavaler

Tom Kavaler is Senior Counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, a New York-based law firm. He clerked for Judge Milton Pollack of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Memory and Marginalia

Max Raskin: Do you prefer to read books on a device or in hard copy?

Tom Kavaler: I have never read a book on a device in my life. That's why God invented hardcover books – so you can read them.

MR: Do you write marginalia?

TK: I believe that is a sacrilege.

MR: Really?

TK: Really.

MR: You don't write in your books?

TK: I do not.

MR: Never?

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