My great pal Lewis, with whom I have shared a friendship for over half a century, have much in common professionally. Is he also a gastroenterologist? A physician? A nurse? Actually, he is a tax attorney. So, where’s the commonality? Could it be that my patients and his adversaries both feel that they are being ‘instrumented’? While I suspect that this may be true, it is a different aspect of our respective professions that binds us. Lewis’s clients and my patients need to grapple with and accept uncertainty. I find the parallels here to be striking and I’ll do my best to illustrate. Legal Uncertainty The client brings an issue to his attorney seeking a legal remedy or an opinion. Let us assume a corporation wants to know if a particular expense can be legally considered a tax deduction. The experienced tax attorney responds, after careful thought and deliberation (yes, the time clock is ticking!), that he is 75% certain that the proposed de
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