• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

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

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        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.