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July 02, 2008
Help, I'm a rock.
Left brain, right brain, stale brain, jury work. In the first semester, and not gradually, you lose some of your command of the English language. The verbal agility and fired imagination that got you through your Reynolds Price course in college is gone. Next, you notice that your creativity is, somehow, inhibited. But you do start thinking in a linear and more Western-logic way. And you learn, as a law student, to think about something that is inextricably attached to something else without thinking about the thing to which it is attached. That's the idea, the prize. But something is lost. In a few years you start writing documents that begin "COMES NOW, oye oye, by and through XYZ law firm, Upstart, Inc., which avers, somewhat obsequiously, to his Honorable Court, the following, which..." when just "Upstart, Inc. states" would suffice. You think it's normal. You notice that, for years now, you have argued, rather than listened, in conversations. You are now a prisoner of your goals. Read Anne Reed's post "Stop Thinking Like A Lawyer!" at her challenging Deliberations.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Bad dog: GeekLawyer coverage
Oxford grads are baaad. Blawg Review #166, hosted this week by the Keith Moon of legal blogs, got noticed. Nothing sacred; no one spared.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 08:07 PM | Comments (4)
"Are lawyers just kidding themselves about delivering true service to clients?"
Reviews on lawyers always have ranged from architects of great nations and the world's commercial markets to necessary evils who add little or no value to any project. We are said to be manipulators with at best convenient notions of truth.
And horror stories about our botched or inattentive services are legion. True service to clients: are we delivering this and, if we aren't, can we talk about why?
Opening lines of our first post of August 1, 2005.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:59 AM | Comments (1)
Learning well.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
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