Back to a book from an earlier post, which you can refer to in a moment.
This post is more or less directed to my earlier self, my law school student self, and current law students, many of whom sometimes wonder what it is they’re doing there. We’re working hard to become lawyers. But we don’t really know what being a lawyer means. I didn’t really know what a lawyer did. Even now, it’s difficult to figure out exactly. (Speak for yourself, you might say.)
Fortunately, someone much smarter than I or at least more experienced (Lawrence Lessig) already has, in his Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Well, I guess it was his uncle or some other relative, but nevermind:
“It is what a lawyer does, what a good lawyer does, that makes this system work. It is not the bluffing, or the outrage, or the strategies and tactics. It is something much simpler than that. What a good lawyer does is tell a story that persuades. Not by hiding the truth or exciting the emotion, but using reason, through a story, to persuade.”
Man, that’s good perspective.
