Today we will begin our discussion of legal analysis. We have all heard it time and time again: the purpose of law school is to train you to “think law a lawyer.” As the infamous Professor Kingsfield told his students in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, you come to law school “with a skull full a mush, and you leave thinking like a lawyer.” But what does that mean exactly? Do lawyers really think different than other people? What does it mean to “think like a lawyer”? And, for that matter, what is legal reasoning?
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