Not a Philadelphia Lawyer

After day of constitutional law, Dave Shipper '92 often grabs his scuba gear for a swim with gray-tipped sharks before the sun sets. This is not the setting of your average lawyer. Since receving his law degree from the University of Al. abama, Shipper ha s served as clerk for the former American protector ate of Palau. Never heard of this nascent republic? Neither had Shipper' until he answered an advertisement in the National Law Journal. But Shipper'packed his bags after a, quick glance through the world atlas (Patau's rock islands are 500 miles east of the Philippines'), At first he found it hard to get around in Micronesia, both physically (its 17,000 inhabitants use landmarks rather than street addresses) and personally (no one rings). But he's since settled in in the judge's old house by the water tank on. the hill.