BE CAREFUL. A CAREER IN LAW COULD CHANGE

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Correspondent: Генри, почему Вы выбрали профессию юриста? 
Mr. Dahut: When asked why I became a lawyer I usually say because it seemed like a smart thing to 
do. Unlike some of my law school classmates, I had no illusions of becoming either a great advocate or 
a legal scholar. All I wanted was a nice income and a respectable position in life. For me, law was a 
safe career choice, not a passion. My only concern was that as a creative, emotive, right-brain type, I 
would not be able to make my mind do whatever it is that lawyer minds do to think like lawyers. But 
an old lawyer, I met, told me that the real danger was that once you start thinking like a lawyer it 
becomes difficult to think any other way.
C.: Когда Вы сами поняли, что необходимо научиться мыслить как юрист? 
Mr. Dahut: That process began on the first day of law school when the dean told our petrified first-
year class that before we could become lawyers we had to learn how to think like lawyers. One student 
had the nerve to ask the dean how we would know when he had learned to think like lawyers. The 
dean shot back, when you get paid to think! I soon saw how thinking like lawyers actually meant 
altering our reasoning structures. For example, memory, while important to success in law school, 
stood a distant second to learning how to reason like a lawyer. 
C.: Что значит – мыслить как юрист? 
Mr. Dahut: Thinking like a lawyer demands thinking within the confines of inductive and deductive 
forms of reasoning. As law students, we entered a world of rigorous dialogue in which abstractions are 
formulated and then described – usually leading to the discovery of a general principle or rule, which 
is then distinguished from another general rule. We learned how to narrow and intensify our focus. The 
process taught us how to think defensively: We learned how to protect our clients (and ourselves) and 
why we needed to proceed slowly, find the traps, measure and calculate the risk. And above all, never, 
ever let them see you sweat! 

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