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Legislation is a career that, in contrast to some others, operates regularly underneath the pressure of disagreement. Medical doctors cooperate and coordinate to take care of sufferers. Engineers work collectively to construct a bridge. However litigants and their attorneys are pitted in opposition to each other on reverse sides. That doesn’t sound like an commercial for legislation faculty, that sounds somewhat bleak.
— Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in feedback given through the Seventh Circuit Judicial Convention, the place she went on to say that attorneys learn to argue “with out letting it eat relationships,” and that she’s “grateful to the way in which our bar conducts itself in that regard, as a result of that’s what permits the judicial system to work nicely, that collegiality.”
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