Law in Contemporary Society

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JoshuaHochmanSecondPaper 7 - 23 Apr 2010 - Main.JohnAlbanese
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 I can work on the outside stuff, like suits and facial hair and not slouching, but it's the propriety of the job that bothers me. I'm not sure if all law students experience the self-suffocation that accompanies playing the part of an industrious (ha!) law student, but when I read more colorful accounts of lawyer-speak (as opposed to 'law-talk'), I feel like a little bit of weight has been lifted off my back. This is about much more than saying whatever I want-distinguished colleagues often deserve the respect they are customarily afforded by the sheer fact that they are my fellow men and women. However, it sure makes my future look a lot brighter to know that if I have a client in a shitty situation, I won't have to act numb to it because I'm being paid to.
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Joshua, I have some general comments that I want preserved in the wiki before I post my revised copy of your paper. I tried to refine your thesis. I felt that you had a lot of ideas that got a bit scrambled in the discussion of the Lawyerland passages. I tried to refocus the essay to magnify what I believe to be your core thought: Learning law talk is different that learning how a lawyer talks. The conversations you cited involve lawyers speaking about law in an emotional and raw manner that law school seems to want to stifle. I have tried to edit the paper in a way that emphasizes that aspect. Your strongest restatement of your point comes in your concluding two paragraphs. These paragraphs are more personal and are more powerful than the preceding parts of the essay. Therefore, I tried to weave your experiences as a law student throughout the essay. This has involved writing from what I perceive to be your perspective, so I apologize if I have made any assertions about how you feel that you would disagree with.
 
You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable.

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