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 == new merge proposals with ""Attorney at Law"" and ""Practice of law"" == 

 Many articles in the legal section suffer from poor drafting.  This is partially as a result of repetitive information and a lack of focus, among other things.  Therefore it is proposed that many of the articles be merged into sections of a single article in order to aid in drafting.  It is hoped that this will encourage elaboration on the sections by editors.  But it will also reduce the number of poorly drafted articles.  Previous objections to mergers have not been followed by substantial improvements to editing.  Therefore it is observed that the conservative approach is ineffective.  

 Plus, the ""Attorney at law"" title is simply stupid.  It's like lawyers using the title of ""Esquire.""  Come on!  There's no difference between an ""attorney at law"" and a lawyer.    "