Some professions, by its high academic standards and training of their students, occasionally makes dealing with these professionals a bit foreign in feeling...or maybe, out-of-place from normal daily life. Take for example, the language lawyers use because of their specialty training. It speaks very much like one from a foreign country.
File under Foreign files…
It is like going to Greece and you do not speak Greek! You encounter foreign language law books…
Shelve under Foreign books…
Shelve under classic Foreign law books…
Do not shelve! Updated Foreign law listing…
Their foreign law humor…
Their foreign law artwork…
Their foreign law wisdom quotes…
“A lawyer’s time and advise is his stock in trade.”
Thank goodness, Jerry Seinfeld playfully describes what we all need to know before some of us travel over to foreign lawyer country:
“What are lawyers really? To me, a lawyer is basically the person that know the rules of the country. We’re all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there’s a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.”
When visiting the legal world, one usually hires a lawyer to help navigate successfully in this foreign land…
Well, it is all Greek…I mean, foreign to me.
This Weekly Photo Challenge is Foreign. According to the definition given, “Foreign… (rightly so) often brings up images of things outside of your own nation, it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something which is out of place in general.”
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Is there a profession that screams FOREIGN to you?
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*Is anyone else experiencing Zemanta not showing up in edit post page? Just wondering…
Photo Credits: Private law firm collection.
