“I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of law to be discredited.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Fugitive Slave Law, 186 (1851)
There is a joke that when he or she wants an excuse to impress a client in order to finagle substantial earnings, a Nigerian lawyer resorts to Latin phrases. The objective is to make the lawyer sound profound beyond even their own understanding and it is immaterial that the speaker, like the person whom he or she seeks…
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