ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book focuses on the traditional metaphors of pure lawyering. It explores the implications of the mode of thinking when removed from situations that call for it. The book also focuses on how one might go about, having been thoroughly inculcated as a lawyer, understanding when and how to employ it and other modes of thinking. It offers a thesis about two possible consequences one cynical and one naïve of thinking like a lawyer. The book deals with some of the consequences of the rationality of legal thinking. It considers some of the ways we might appropriately temper pure lawyering. In addition to undertaking a critique of the mechanics of the legal reasoning process itself, the book explores lawyerly thinking within the broader sphere of making judgments.
