


The lawyers I know like to read and write. The profession attracts folks who like researching and writing, hence the outsized number of humanities majors in our ranks. One of my favorite quotes is the apocryphal Mark Twain quote: “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.” Were it a TV series, the quote would be described as “based on true events” rather than a genuine quotation. But the phrase and its sentiment go back much farther than Twain in 1871.
