ARE you planning to become a lawyer, studying law or a practising attorney? With 60 years of experience in the field and the longest-serving legal practitioner in the country, Edwin Roopnarine has some advice for you—have respect for the judge, your fellow attorneys and ensure that the rule of law is of paramount importance.

Roopnarine said, “Once we can hold up the rule of law...it is then that you will have a civil society where each person, where every creed and race can find an equal place, because, with the rule of law that is what supports a society, a civil society, where people can live in happiness.”

As he marked his 60th year in active practice in June, Roopnarine summed up the years by saying that law has given him a deep meaning for his life. And although he declined to divulge his age, the veteran attorney did say that he is proud of his life.