Legal paper

[sorrowmonkey]

So, I've been working on my 15-page legal skills paper (I'm at around 10 pages) which is due Thursday. I have actual legitimate work to do, but I can hopefully make that up during break (right after this is due). I've hit a bit of an impasse in one of the three sections, and for now I think I've just going to detour around it for now and come back to it later.

I'm not going to bore you all with a bunch of legalese about it, but to show, by analogy, the nature of my complaint, I will give a mathematical example...

The professor divides the class in half. One half is supposed to answer yes, and the other no. We are given a problem to research, and we must support our answer with mathematical proof. However, in the course of the research, it comes out that the equation we are talking about is:

Does 2 + 2 = 4?

Now, imagine, that you ended up on the "no" side. Blarg.

Comments

What your prof is

[osgkar.livejournal.com]

likely looking for is the @$@%@ that eather one or both of the "2"s are not actualy 2 but are 2.1 or 1.9 and therefore the answer is not in fact 4
even though any sane person would see that 2s are 2s.
argh! good luck have fun.

[farmhouse-ghost.livejournal.com]

But the No side can be fun.
:)

[ferriludant.livejournal.com]

Base 3, my friend.

[ferriludant.livejournal.com]

Due to a recent brush with the lightbulb effect, I'm feeling a need for more clarity than usual - yes, I understood that 2+2=4 was a metaphor, a placeholder.

So presumably in your real assignment, it seems to you that the facts and probably the law are not on your side. So you have to redefine the ground, right?

[cyruse.livejournal.com]

Attack methodology. Cast doubt.
To paraphrase Robert Baer in the book See No Evil,
"1) Admit nothing. 2) Deny everything. 3) Make counteraccusations."

Luna Law

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

When you're standing firmly in the wrong, move the ground.
Skippy says it's ok.
I would be willing to help talk it through if that would help. I don't know the law, but I'm not bad at contary and obstinate.

Re: Luna Law

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

It's mostly a case where I really hate what the rule is, but it has gained widespread acceptance, so it's like beating your head against a wall to change it.

Every comment has been on-point and helpful. I can't really ask for a change in the law (outside of the scope of this assignment), so all I can do is work the narrow exceptions and carve out a little piece of ground for the plaintiff to stand on.