Subject: Thought this would be inspirational to MY attorneys - Leon Panetta Interview: Conversations
From: "Corey Shearer" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:35:42 -0400

Thought this would be inspirational to MY attorneys

Leon Panetta Interview<http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Panetta/panetta-con0.html>:
Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Panetta/panetta-con1.html
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Did the skills you developed at law school help you for what you did down
the road in all of these positions in Washington?

Oh, I don't think there's any question.

I believe that the fundamental purpose of education is to give you a process
of thinking. It's not the dates and the facts that you learn so much as the
process of thinking as you approach challenges and problems in society.
Legal thinking, the whole process of analyzing a case, a factual situation,
looking at both sides, looking at what the facts are, looking at what the
legal arguments are, looking at what applies in the situation, and then the
capacity to argue a position for or against something, based on what you can
determine are the facts in the law: that process is invaluable in politics,
and that's probably what attracts a lot of lawyers to politics. Because
politics and certainly legislating is the process of looking at a situation,
determining what course you take, determining what the arguments are for or
against it, and then making those arguments.

And then in the end, coming up with a settlement that establishes a new
variation on the rules about how we will live together.

That's right, and then resolving that issue. Because in trials you resolve
issues, in law you resolve issues, and in politics, hopefully, you resolve
issues, so that you can try to find something that solves whatever problem
you're confronting.

-- 
Corey Alexander Shearer
Director of Field Operations, 2011
Broward Voter Action Network
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Corey Alexander Shearer, MCP
Microsoft Certified Professional
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CSRP, Inc.. / CSRP Insurance, Inc.
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