Our associates often e-mail each other with questions or comments on the law. They always welcome the important guidance that they get.

From: New Associate To: Associates Subject: When I read some things it makes me feel better about being a lawyer . . . “The underlying purpose of law and government is human happiness and contentment, to be brought about by the satisfaction of human desires in the highest practicable degree.” Corbin on Contracts. . . the first sentence of the treatise.

Among the many responses:

From: Name Withheld To: Associates Subject: Re: Re: When I read some things it makes me feel better about being a lawyer. . . That having been said, the more immediate purpose of law and government is to compel our adversary to bow to our will, rendering us victorious. And all that is well and good, but the most proximate purpose of law and government is to get that deadbeat rat bastard to pay us the stinking money he owes, pronto.