https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/06/june-29-roundup-2/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/06/june-29-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-165627 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:15:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=30701#comment-165627 Generally speaking, a Sea Lawyer is a sailor who uses legalistic “reasoning” to shirk his duty. Invocations of discrimination, and fairness are common ones, but also pitting on authority against another, or expansively interpreting even the strictest orders to result in the most convenient and leisure-bearing interpretation. Broadly, any sailor or shipboard Marine who tries to talk his way out of a direct order can be fairly accused of Sea Lawyering. Like all shirkers, Sea Lawyers are poisonous to shipboard morale.

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