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1992
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25
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|I congratulate the Creighton University School of Law on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Creighton Law Review. Together with the authors, editors and staff members with whom I served, I am honored to have contributed to the Law Review and its continuing success.|The Law Review has served me vitally in two roles. More important than my own experience, however, is the fact that my experience is shared by many of the Law Review's alumni and other readers.|First, when I was a student author and editor, the Law Review taught me the value of critical analysis and of clear, concise and precise communication. The simplicity of those concepts belies their overwhelming value in whatever role the lawyer serves-teacher, advocate or counselor. Disraeli (whom I never had the opportunity to quote when I was an editor) described a man who was "inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."' Lawyers have no greater immunity than anyone else to such intoxication. A good lawyer must be more than a good legal technician. He must possess a clear moral compass, and also must be a careful yet persuasive communicator. This is so regardless of whether the lawyer's intended audience is a court, a client or a classroom. It takes discipline and practice to express one's ideas carefully and concisely, but there is not question-in the law or anywhere else-that that is the most effective way to communicate. I credit the Law Review for its instillation of and adherence to those values...
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25 Creighton L. Rev. 1111 (1991-1992)
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Creighton University School of Law