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Orange Jacobs: “He claimed that their use had changed the members of the legal profession from a body of original and stalwart thinkers…”

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He claimed that their use had changed the members of the legal profession from a body of original and stalwart thinkers, to a body of sickly book-worms.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs notes a judge's opinion that the legal profession has shifted from original thinkers to overly reliant bookworms due to the use of reports.

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