Description of Lawyers

posted by Curt Bentley, on January 8, 2008 01:24 pm

Here's a great description of what lawyers do:

A lawyer is a student of meaningful differences among apparently similar situations, and meaningful similarities among situations of no apparent connection. A person who is keen at spotting differences or similarities, discarding the unimportant ones, fastening upon the important ones, and being prepared to explain the reasons for their importance, is well along toward thinking like a lawyer. That skill is demanded in many fields of endeavor. So is the good lawyer’s hesitancy to accept easy assumptions about the facts, and his instinctive reach for verifiable truth.

This is from Elder Dallin H. Oaks.

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