Words have been, and always will be, the basic tools of the lawyer. As legal scholar Charles Alan Wright noted, "Whether we are trying a case, writing a brief, drafting a contract, or negotiating with an adversary, words are the only things we have to work with." It is no surprise, then, that the profession attracts individuals with a fluency for words, and that the best of them hone that skill into a weapon more precise and lethal than a stiletto...
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