“I need to talk to you right away,” wrote the author of the e-mail. “I will call at 9 a.m., and you better take it.” It was an obvious threat. Steve suspected that his client and childhood friend David had discovered Steve’s affair with David’s wife.
What follows is a hypothetical story of compartmentalization run amok. Compartmentalizing is a key part of thinking like a lawyer. In that abstracting process, lawyers break down real-world problems into their constituent parts, then examine each compartment’s relationship to the others. Depending on the task at hand, lawyers argue that the compartments are either sealed off from or connected to one another.
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