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A threshold question: Do they? Yes. This is clear anecdotally among lawyers and law students I know, and it's also borne out empirically.
Well, why? The short version: Practicing law sucks enough to drive anyone to drink. Plus, even if you are a (rare) happy lawyer, three years of booze-soaked law school have probably turned you into a lush.
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Quite honestly I feel it's to try and depress their feelings of guilt, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteI guess I am the exception to the rules I am in my final year of law school and might have one drink a month. I guess I am the exception.
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