Your post is somewhat of a strawman. I never wrote that someone should know all of the law, but that I believe they should know the law in the area they will b

Your post is somewhat of a strawman. I never wrote that someone should know all of the law, but that I believe they should know the law in the area they will be practicing. I'm not an attorney, however my experience has shown me there are multiple kinds of practitioners of law. I have had various attorneys on the stand in mediation where they looked foolish in front of the mediation panel due to not knowing off the top of their heads the subjects they purported to be expert. There are no reference materials for them to look anything up at that point.