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A Tale Of Two Clients: Thinking About Law As Language, Clark D. Cunningham
A Tale Of Two Clients: Thinking About Law As Language, Clark D. Cunningham
Michigan Law Review
This is a true story. It is actually three true stories. The article taken as a whole tells a story of my personal search for a new way of talking about the experience of being a lawyer, a quest which is leading me to think more and more about law as a kind of language and lawyering as a form of translation. Rather like a medieval romance, embedded within this story of a quest are two tales, about clients I have represented in the course of my clinical teaching.
As much as possible, both levels of narrative are presented in …