Intermediate Library Science

[theworst]

[So Jeff and Britta are in a library, in a study room, with books spread across the table. It's oddly nostalgic, except there are five other people missing. Britta's face is scrunched up as she reads over one trying to find something in there to quiz Jeff about to help him in his studying]

How many laws do you really need to know to be a lawyer? Can't you just sing Witchy Woman and win the jury over or whatever it is that you do?

[they seriously need Annie, because this thing called studying is hard]

Comments

[bedheaded]

Yeah, see, you do have to know some of the law. The parts that are important to whatever kind of law you practice. For me, it was DUI cases. But more importantly, you have to know your audience. Reading judge and jury and playing off their prejudices is at least half the job. In America, it's easy. For a year or so after 9/11, you could win almost any case by bringing it up. But here? I need to get to know these people. Or I'll never be able to talk them into doing what I want. [Which is why one of the books in front of him is a law book, and the other one is a history textbook.] Did you know they have plays commemorating their invasion? That's like Native Americans doing a joyful musical number every time we drop by with pestilential sleeping blankets.