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Originally Posted by olddog
Well, I learned a long time ago that law has been perverted to the point there's no way for the common man (no matter how high the IQ) to make any sense of it.
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OD, I don't believe that's true at all. In fact, I believe every single legal doctrine can be explained to, and understood by, anyone with average intelligence. In that regard, law is just like information technology, or fixing Cobras, or rebuilding engines. If you know how to do it, you can make it sound very, very complicated (if you want to) or you can break it down in to easy to understand steps and explain it so that the listener understands it. I'm sure I know over a thousand lawyers; smart ones, dumb ones, and everything in between... and, being
really smart doesn't have as much relation to success in the field as you might think.
I sat next to a kid during 1st year law that had a graduate degree in nuclear physics. Man he was smart, I mean
really smart... and he flunked out the first year.