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Originally Posted by patrickt
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. |
I'm not saying you have to be smart to practice law. I'm saying you have to be well educated. The common man is not educated in law. He should never attempt to represent himself in a legal matter. Nor should he ever kid himself that he understands anything about it.
Having been through enough to have seen it up close, it is my opinion that fairness, truth, nor justice has any meaning. It is an adversarial system of winner takes all, and winning is all that matters, at any cost. Money talks, and the poor have little chance at fairness. A biased opinion but an honest opinion. In case your wondering, no I have never been charged with anything except a few traffic tickets.
What ever the outcome of FFR and Shelby's legal pissing match, I'm sure if I read it, my understanding would not be legally correct.