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Rory Perry's Weblog Law, technology, and the courts a poem a day keeps the doldrums away Poetry can lift us all. A good poem, or even a single powerful image from a poem, can reverberate in a way that is rarely present in our modern technological life and its conflicts. While the quiet moment with a poem may be a rare event in the workday, it's even rarer to see lawyers by training in the role of the poet (even though it's more common than you think). Jim Elkins, a professor of mine from law school, has compiled the first-ever anthology of poetry by lawyers, published as Volume XXVIII of the Legal Studies Forum. While law-related poems by lawyers have been published as collections, this nearly 700 page compilation is a first. The ethicalesq rightly commends the book for every law firm library. If I had the money and time, I'd ship the book to every lawyer I know; not just in the hope that briefs might be tighter, more careful, but also because the profession, like the poet, can learn by looking at the world in a new light. 5:14:37 PM [Permanent Link]
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