https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/the-language-of-the-law/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:39:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/03/the-language-of-the-law/#comment-101317 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:39:07 +0000 https://www.vianegativa.us/?p=70403#comment-101317 Wonderful! My father was also a lawyer who became a circuit court judge (in Newport News) later in life, but I accepted his (I guess) subliminal invitation to become one, too, and stuck at it for sixteen years. I found wellsprings of a connection with him in the turns of phrase he’d employ in certain limited genres–the occasional legal opinions his job required and (oddly) thank-you notes. I wonder, in retrospect, how much of my love for the rule of law didn’t come, after all, to all of my classmates who put their hands over their hearts with me each morning but from the accident of my upbringing at home.

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