a controversial figure among legal scholars by choice, concluding an unapologetically argumentative 2005 essay in the Pepperdine Law Review with the assertion that: "This view underpins my scholarship: that identifying what is actually occurring in our legal system is, or at least ought to be, a prime purpose of scholarship; that by identifying these truths and bringing them to the attention of both the academy and the profession, I am providing an opportunity to curb abuses in the legal system; and that focusing on these abuses will ultimately be in the self-interest of the legal profession." Family and personal life Lester Brickman married for the first time in the mid-1960s. His firstborn, and only son, Theodore K. Brickman, was born October 20, 1966. This marriage ended in divorce in March 1969. In July 1977, Brickman married Miriam Bellman, née Dorf (b. 1939), the daughter of a Toledo-born photographer, restaurateur, and realtor of Russian-Jewish ancestry, Eli Dorf (1911-1983), and Ruth Shore Dorf (1914-1986). Ruth Shore was a native of Montreal, Canada, of Romanian and Russian Jewish parentage. Miriam Dorf Brickman was, until her retirement, a professional cook, who taught French cuisine in the New School's Culinary Arts Program, and was executive chef at the Wall Street firm Paine Webber. In January 2006, Ms. Brickman was interviewed for the International Association of Culinary Professionals' (IACP) Oral History Project by Amelia Saltsman; the transcript is held in the collections of the Schlesinger Library. She is listed in the 2011 IACP roster of Certified Culinary Professionals. Miriam Brickman passed away on November 3, 2020, according to her obituary in the Toledo Blade. Lester Brickman resides in Greenwich Village and Carmel, New York. In Carmel, Lester Brickman maintains a wine cellar; he is an oenophile who has written on wine appreciation. A daughter, Frances Anna Brickman, was born to Miriam and Lester Brickman on March 5, 1981. She was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law. As of summer 2016, Anna Brickman, formerly a public defender in Boston, Massachusetts, is serving in the same capacity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In September 2005, Theodore Brickman died of melanoma in Coral Springs, Florida, at the age of 38. Lester Brickman's 2011 book, Lawyer Barons, is dedicated to his son's memory. Publications, in chronological order With external links where available. "Education at Marlin Boom," Carnegie Technical Magazine 22, no. 5 (April 1958):