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2002

Litigation

University of Georgia School of Law

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Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn Of Court Team Members 2002-2003, Kellie Casey Monk Jan 2002

Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn Of Court Team Members 2002-2003, Kellie Casey Monk

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Lawyers And Decisions: A Model Of Practical Judgment, Alexander W. Scherr Jan 2002

Lawyers And Decisions: A Model Of Practical Judgment, Alexander W. Scherr

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What do lawyers do, and how do they think in practice? Certainly, lawyers analyze law, and apply it to facts: the law school answer. This article proposes a more fluid notion: that lawyering prompts a mindfulness associated with decision-making, a mindfulness that engages and integrates a number of different capacities. Lawyers engage in a complex and unique thought process that relies only partially on rigorous analysis of legal principle. Lawyers must also integrate non-legal and even non-conceptual realities in considering client decisions. This integration emerges from the lawyer-client relationship and flexes to the demands characteristic of lawyering tasks. Lawyering is …