Abstract
Professional lawyering no less than lay lawyering involves participation in the practices of living and in the relationships through which people construct and contest their differences…Still, our inability to grasp and describe [legal] practice should not serve as the basis for valuing professional lawyering more highly than the rest of our problem-solving methodologies. We all do it— " privilege " professional lawyering in this way—lay people and professionals alike-and we're all wrong for doing it. i