 Ira’s first job was as a reader to the village of Dalton of the World War II fortunes of the West India Regiments serving in Europe.He served as an elementary school teacher and then as a Clerk of the Courts in Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica, before traveling to England to read for the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1957.He sought to retain the very highest traditions of barristerial endeavor thereafter, strictly applying the rules of the British bar to the rest of his professional life.