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by rayiner 17 days ago
It’s not just that law is ambiguous. That’s something that can be worked around. It’s that lawyering deals with human disputes and everything that comes with that. Imagine asking a couple that’s getting divorced “why are you getting divorced?” You’ll get two completely different stories with different recollections of the facts. Business disputes aren’t really any different. People have selective recollection, they don’t remember things, they shade the truth or hide things or just lie.

Oftentimes, the law is reasonably clear. The hard part is getting the facts out of the witnesses to figure out what really happened, so you have facts to apply to the law.