Law Practice
Apr. 15, 2009
The Language of Law
Lawyers must analyze words as much as legal concepts before deducing legal conclusion.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
Partner, Bastian & Dini
Penthouse Suite 9025 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills , CA 90211
Phone: (310) 789-1955
Fax: (310) 822-1989
Email: robbastian@aol.com
Whittier Law School
"The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers." The famous line from William Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part II" is uttered in a moment of sarcastic comedic relief by Dick the Butcher, a member of a rebellious mob whose disaffected purpose was to ignite a 1450 plot to overthrow the young king. The rebellion's leader, Jack Cade, replies, "Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a m...
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