“T HE FIRST thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” is one of Shakespeare’s most memorable lines. You would struggle to find such a line in the writings of lawyers themselves—and not just because they would, presumably, disagree. Though some judges are sophisticated stylists, most legal language is fussy, tangled and incapable of producing anything so pithy. (This is no doubt one reason so many people want to kill all the lawyers.) But do lawyers write that way to impress, to bewilder—or perhaps because they must?
莎士比亚最令人难忘的台词之一：“我们要做的第一件事，让我们杀死所有律师。”您将很难在律师本身的著作中找到这样的界限，而不仅仅是因为他们会不同意。尽管有些法官是精致的设计师，但大多数法律语言都是挑剔，纠结和无法产生如此精巧的任何东西。（毫无疑问，这么多人想杀死所有律师。）但是律师是否以这种方式给人留下深刻印象，使他们感到困惑 - 或者也许是因为他们必须？
