{"id":36052,"date":"2025-01-19T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/apprentice\/the-great-lawyers-mostly-didnt-go-to-law-school-like-lincoln\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T05:40:09","slug":"the-great-lawyers-mostly-didnt-go-to-law-school-like-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=36052","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cGreat Lawyers\u201d Mostly Didn\u2019t Go to Law School \u2013 Like Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/greatlawyers\/greatlawyers\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/greatlawyers.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"greatlawyers\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/greatlawyers.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2637 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/greatlawyers.jpg\" alt=\"greatlawyers\" width=\"342\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/greatlawyers.jpg 612w, https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/greatlawyers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/greatlawyers-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\"\/><\/a>Who in the world would think it a good idea to make a coloring book of \u201cGreat Lawyers?\u201d \u00a0In any case, I found this coloring book on the sidewalk recently, and\u00a0it\u2019s worth mentioning, because among the lawyers who achieved the great honor of being in this coloring book, only a few had a typical law school education. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Webster\">Daniel Webster<\/a> read the law in the office of a friend. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarence_Darrow\">Clarence Darrow<\/a> put in a little time in law school, but didn\u2019t graduate, and proceeded to read the law in an Ohio law office. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Marshall\">John Marshall<\/a> attended just six weeks of lectures at William &amp; Mary. <a href=\"https:\/\/likelincoln.org\/belva-lockwoods-my-efforts-to-become-a-lawyer\/\">Belva Lockwood, as I\u2019ve written about before<\/a>, pieced together her education and studied a lot on her own, after being denied access to law school. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abrahamlincolnonline.org\/lincoln\/speeches\/law.htm\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0is, of course, this blog\u2019s namesake.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Blackstone\">Sir William Blackstone<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Coke\">Sir Edward Coke<\/a>\u00a0each studied at one of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inns_of_Court\">London\u2019s Inns of Court<\/a>, which, as far as I can tell, were organizations that brought law offices and law study together in the same place. 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