Law in Contemporary Society

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  • I don't understand the appeal of the essay devoted to a single extended metaphor. I've watched people write them for years, but I've never understood what they hoped to get by them. This metaphor doesn't make analyzing the behavior of leveraged law firms easier or more accurate. It doesn't shed any light on how young lawyers should make career choices. It doesn't even correctly model, in my view, the thought processes they currently use. It's an extended parallel arranged by taking the features that are similar in two situations while ignoring all dissimilarities. What is it worth?

  • From my point of view, the route to the essay's improvement is to drop the metaphor, and figure out what you really have to say about the non-casino part of the comparison. If you have a thesis that isn't a figure of speech, that's what the essay's about. If not, start fresh.
 
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<		WOW that's an awesome pair of sentences. I don't agree with the argument, but the analogy is beautiful.
 
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