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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3602841, member: 76194&quot;]In a way law is like that, you have to learn it on your own or with the guidance and good graces of older attorneys. Almost nothing you learned in law school has any practicality and application to the real world. So when you graduate you come to the realization that you have been fed mostly obsolete concepts of law that no longer apply or almost never come up in the real world, and have little practical knowledge whatsoever about your profession. Most graduates are able to recite and understand many concepts of law that have become obsolete in their state more than 50 or 60 years prior but can&#039;t file a basic motion, or know how to properly draft a complaint, or know how to depose, examine, cross examine, and impeach witnesses. Pretty sad stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Pretty much every attorney ends up having to teach themselves or learn little bits of scraps here and there from other attorneys, and put it all together. Heck, that still happens to older attorneys moving into an area of law they never practiced before. I&#039;m running circles around an attorney that&#039;s 20 years older than me. But he is recently trying to get into family law while I&#039;ve been doing the same for nearly a decade. He&#039;s learning from the scraps of knowledge I&#039;m giving him every time I pull out another motion and argue a concept he&#039;s never heard. Next time around he won&#039;t be as easy to face&nbsp; because now he will have self-taught himself from the education I&#039;ve indirectly given him in court, and will have a better understanding of what works and doesn&#039;t work, and when to back off and when to go for the jugular and draw blood. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>We are so badly off topic that here&#039;s a coin to make it all better.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]964298[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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