With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.
To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.
A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.
The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.