You just cover it with a veil of logic fashioned during law school and painstakingly embroidered in practice. If you'd smack you if you were you, lighten up. B eware the lawyer in you, just itching to consume the nice young person you once were. With competence comes a certain rigidity. Most lawyers suffer fools lightly.
Trouble is, foolishness abounds.
And, worse, those few who are excessively rational tend to be rather dull. Either way, be careful whom you become. Excerpted from The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book, by Thane Josef Messinger , a graduate of the U. of Texas Law School, where he was an editor of the Texas Law Review. So, while we hesitate to do anything that might encourage further spread of The Lawyer Plague , if you already made up your mind, we strongly encourage you to find out more about The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book , and to order and read it immediately.