Yes. Law school students even compete at an intercollegiate
level. It's called "moot court."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moot_court
There's also;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_trial
> I suspect they do. You can get a mental
> picture of Mad Joe making the kind of basic errors he does here, lying
> instead of admitting them, and then losing it. Leading to his being
> advised that he'd never make a lawyer.
I had been a high school debater, and a pretty good one.
My team won a state junior varsity title. I dabbled in it a
bit at the collegiate level, but did not keep at it.
I was never very good at the "you lost, accept it" part of
the competition. One of the reasons I did not go on
to law school, besides the expense, is that I questioned
whether I would have the temperament to be a good lawyer.
Even on the way to a win, lawyers have to accept adverse rulings
from judges. I'd either keep arguing after I'd lost, or
outwardly accept it while my disagreement ate away at me.
Either way, I might not have been a happy guy
What Tandy would have been like as a member of the bar
is a great puzzle. Would his guts have wrapped themselves
around his windpipe somewhere around his 45th birthday
and strangled him, due to pent up anger?*
* apologies to Douglas Adams
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Kevin R
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