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I was soflatteredwhen Iwas asked towrite this article as a tribute to Professor David Wexler's years of work and leadership in the creation, development, and perpetuation of therapeutic jurisprudence (sometimes TJ). I have known David for about 40 years, and over that time, we have become close personal and professional friends, as many readers already know. I had even threatened David with the promise that I would visit Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, NY, to unearth some really embarrassing bit of information about him from the late 1950s, but prudence dictated that I did not do that. More on point: since I first met David (we both were on The Task Force on Legal and Ethical Issues of the President's (Carter's) Commission on Mental Health), we stayed connected, through the remainder of my years as a litigator on behalf of personswithmental disabilities (hewas already on the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Law when we