I wish I had a dime for every time I ve seen someone who has never been to law school falsely claim to know how lawyers are indoctrinated Dear Evolve Or Die Here s a clue Citing Bouvier s in a Wikipedia talk page is a dead give away If you want to impress others don t cite Bouvier s for heaven s sake Here s another clue Lawyers in American law schools are not indoctrinated in the sense in which you obviously assume Law school does not work the way you think it works It s not high school or college We don t sit for hours listening to professors lecture on a topic And our reading materials do not consist primarily of textbooks in the sense of a high school or college type of textbook A rise in the amount of pro se litigation if any is accompanied by a rise in the number of lawyers who win cases against pro se litigants lawyers walking away in tears all right tears of laughter If you don t want other people to act in a snide and condescending manner then don t pretend to be a legal scholar who somehow knows the law better than the lawyers and don t come here and lecture the rest of us This talk page was not put here for the purpose of allowing anonymous non lawyers to come here and make unsubstantiated and bluntly ridiculous off topic statements about their beliefs about what lawyers do or do not know etc The purpose of this talk page is to provide a forum for disussing ways to improve the article