Law is a very complex game

This tends to be the advice from most law professors and law graduates to newcomers back in the day: (Read more: Robert Charles Lee, Printbroker, financial printer, ex-lawyer. How can I start learning law? Answered December 8, 2015. https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-start-learning-law)

Think of law as a very complex game (criminal vs. civil vs. tort vs. equity vs. decrees) with highly complex rules (legislation plus cases vs. constitutionality) operated by and on highly complex individuals (criminal vs. civil) in rather complex language.

It's a more complex form of chess in that the 'squares' (principles and cases) are not quite square or regular in pattern. Everything you learn, think, say and do are geared to solve someone else's legal problems, so that practically everything is about issues, review of the applicable body of laws, application of the laws to the case (not the other way around), and probable outcome.

That means you have to know what's in and what's out about the law, know which buttons to press, and if you're also lucky (about the legal situation, that is). (Read more: Robert Charles Lee, Printbroker, financial printer, ex-lawyer. How can I start learning law? Answered December 8, 2015. https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-start-learning-law)