NP: The Green Bag

[Curt Hagenlocher]

>From today's Wall Street Journal:

'How would great literary works look if written by lawyers?

'This chilling question is answered in "The Green Bag," a
quarterly publication that calls itself "an entertaining
journal of law."  While aimed at lawyers in general, parts
of an article by Kevin Underhill of Shook, Hardy & Bacon in
San Francisco may have special meaning for tax lawyers
whose quest for precision often comes out sounding like
gobbledygook.

'Consider, for example, Herman Melville's classic "Moby
Dick."  It would be renamed: "Moby Dick, or, the 'Whale.'
A Narrative About, but Not Necessarily Limited to, the
Species Enumerated at 50 C.F.R. #224.101(b)(xiv)."  "Moby
Dick's" opening line ("Call me Ishmael") would read: 
"COMES NOW the protagonist (hereinafter 'Ishmael')."
Mr. Underhill also offers a lawyer's version of the "Book
of Job," dubbed "The Law Book of Job," and James Joyce's
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," renamed "Portrait
of the Lawyer as a Young Man."

'For details about the publication, go to
http://www.greenbag.org.'

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Curt Hagenlocher
curth at motek.com