Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling — George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
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Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
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