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Law Practice

May 30, 2012

Ten of the smartest things ever written about lawyers

They consider the tensions I have felt, tensions which I suspect many lawyers have felt. By William Domnarski

William Domnarski

Email: domnarski@gmail.com

William Domnarski is a Southland mediator and practitioner. His latest book is "Richard Posner," published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

By William Domnarski

William Faulkner famously told us in "Intruder in the Dust" that all of the world's wisdom can be summed up in half a dozen cliches. Maybe. Smart observations are a bit different and do not aim for wisdom. They instead reveal essential truths. For lawyers, the truths are about their professional lives: who they are, what they do and what the profession does to them. How important is money to lawyers, for example. Shakespeare - my only non-lawyer - ...

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