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The Legal Profession

To the general public, lawyers may sometimes appear to be a mysterious and cloistered group, shrouded in mystique and governed by a set of rules which the layman finds puzzling and difficult to understand. It might also seem that lawyers converse in a secret language which only they can comprehend, using antiquated words like “notwithstanding”, “hitherto”, and “aforementioned”. Why, you may ask, are laws not written in plain English which everyone can easily grasp? And why do lawyers dress in black gowns and white bands, and address each other as “my learned friend”?

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