• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      11 months ago

      I’m no lawyer, but I swear 99% of law is laughable semantics like this.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        11 months ago

        America does produce 4x the lawyers expected per capita, and they’ve gotta do something to get paid, so … yeah.

        • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          Frankly, there’s a lot of it that’s creative reading of something so you don’t have to spend 6 months fighting an even worse battle. Also, turns out six people can look at the exact same sentence and come away with six different interpretations, so there’s a good deal of legitimate disagreement on meaning.