> Good lawyers can predict what the judge will do, and can write and say things to maximise the odds of the judge doing what you want him to do. And before you

> Good lawyers can predict what the judge will do, and can write and say things to maximise the odds of the judge doing what you want him to do. And before you go to court, good lawyers and legal advisers look at a case also from the angle of what a judge would ultimately consider. So even if there's no judge around and nobody plans to have a judge around to solve the problem at hand, there's always the 'shadow of the law'. > Law is an impressionistic business, much less scientific than macroeconomics or inflation management, more akin to craft than science. When I went to law school, one of the professors in the first year told us "law is a prescriptive science, not a descriptive science". That was the moment I could not take it seriously anymore, or the moment from when on I had to take it more seriously. Whatever 'serious' might mean in this case. I still don't have a final answer for myself.