From Metro Parent Magazine
http://www.metroparent.com/feature.html

Law and adore

Forget the shrewd, bombastic lawyer whose defense of Dr. Jack Kevorkian made him a national name, the Geoffrey Fieger we’re talking about takes his orders from a 3-year-old.

“I’ve learned humility. He says to do something, and I do it,” says Fieger, referring to his 3 1/2-year-old son Julian.

After being childless for 19 years, Fieger and his wife Keenie chose to adopt Julian and their other son, 1 1/2-year-old Aidan, at birth.

Since then, life hasn’t been the same, and Fieger wouldn’t have it any other way. “I never believed I could love anyone as much,” he says, his voice truly gushing like, well, a man in love. “It changed how I think about everything. It makes me want to be a better person, and it’s an incentive to live longer, to have more time with them.”

These are words not atypical from a father, but coming from a seasoned lawyer who has turned even the best attorneys to mush, it’s quite a softening of the armor.

The 54-year-old says fatherhood hasn’t made a difference in how he practices law, but it definitely has had an effect on how he views crimes against children. “When I hear something bad happening to a child, it really affects me. That’s not a quality I had before I had kids,” he says. “I’m much more selfless.”

And where the former drama student used to quote Shakespeare, now he’s perfectly content to watch the “Wiggles” and “Bear in the Big Blue House.”

“I’m getting them to watch things I like too, like ‘Old Yeller,’” he says. And one of Julian’s favorite songs is the 1970s hit “My Sharona,” by The Knack, a band that features Doug Fieger, Geoffrey’s brother.

With homes in Bloomfield Hills, the Caribbean and Arizona, and staff to help him and Keenie with the kids, Fieger admits that the children lead a charmed life. But he also knows wealth doesn’t prove love.

“All you really have to do is love them to death. They don’t care how big their room is, or anything else. They just want to be with you.”

And while Julian and Aidan are still a little too young to pick out their own Father’s Day gift this year, they should know that, because of them, everyday is Father’s Day in the world according to Geoffrey Fieger.