Not just because there is an entire legal vocabulary, often Latin, to learn and apply.
Practicing law (or any profession/science-art) for that matter is like learning a foreign language b/c you know you're making progress when you begin to think in the new language, to process in the new language, to make the new language a part of your life, rather than something grafted on for a certain number of required hours.
The past couple weeks have included some firsts for me professionally, including my first client dying (as in one I knew b/f the family came to us at a death for probate). She was a cancer patient, already undergoing experimental treatment when she came to us for a will just a few months ago. Another client is the daughter of another cancer victim, really struggling to accept her mom's death and work w/ me to complete the probate of her mom's estate. (Both these clients' situations lended to increased anxiety for me when my own mom was admitted to the hospital last week, although she has now returned home w/ a treatable diagnosis, thanks be to God and modern medicine.) These clients have given me food for spiritual reflection and crept into my prayers, in a way different from the often rote prayer I pray for all my clients. Bless them and all their loved ones, my Lord. And make me your instrument in their lives, if it be your will.
