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Is Learning To "Think Like a Lawyer" Enough?

Wizner, Stephen
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Yale Law and Policy Review
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In 1850 Abraham Lincoln offered the following advice to new law students: There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest... [T]he impression is common, almost universal. Let no young [person) choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief-resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/16870