Legal Education and Legal Services - Some Reflections
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Authors
Cramton, Roger C.
Issue Date
1979
Volume
12
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Stories about lawyers tell us something about ourselves-just as political cartoons communicate essential ideas by exaggeration and caricature.|Consider the following stories about lawyers. One summer day two men are floating through the countryside in a lighter-than-air balloon. Clouds move in and then a thunderstorm hits them. They are thrown off course and have not the foggiest notion of where they are. Finally, they spot a town down below, through a clearing in the clouds, and they lower the balloon closer to the ground. A gentleman is walking down the street and one of the balloonists leans over and shouts: "Where are we?" The man cannot hear at first, so he repeats his request, and finally the response comes. "You're in a balloon." One balloonist looks at the other and says "That man is a lawyer. His answer was entirely correct but revealed absolutely nothing."...
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12 Creighton L. Rev. 487 (1978-1979)
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Creighton University School of Law