The Rules of Logic and the Rules of Inference

Lawyers make formal arguments in court and elsewhere. A formal argument needs to be consistent with formal...

Example of good drafting

Following is an example of good drafting following an “if-then” formulation: If Party A...

The center of Legal Thinking: Analysis and Synthesis

Here is wherever I reveal the most mode of thinking sort of a attorney. Drum roll, please....

Legal Thinking

Having been to law school, practiced law for a decade, and taught law for more than two,...

Legal practice

Legal practice is, to a great extent, ethically ambivalent.  In the U.S., we like...

The Work of the Lawyer

In general terms, we can say that lawyers analyze and argue about what the rules are and...

What Is a Lawyer?

A lawyer is an expert. The expertise that the lawyer wields is twofold. First, it includes knowledge...

Why Is Law Important?

As Tina Turner famously sang, “What’s law got to do with it?” 3 Where does law fit...

What Is Law?

There are all sorts of responses to the question “what is law?” One type of law is...

Difference between lawyers and the rest of us

What is the difference between lawyers and the rest of us? There is no lawyer gene that...