Got a question for
spurraider21 and
vy65 since you guys are lawyers. I don't know if you watch this show, but one of the main plots centered on Jimmy (crooked lawyer) doctoring an address from 1261 Rosella Dr to 1216 Rosella Dr in do ents his brother Chuck (world class lawyer) was working on to get a bank expansion approved in order to fail the application and embarrass Chuck's firm. Chuck says it's impossible the do ents weren't doctored because he could have never confused 1261 for 1216 since 1216 is one after Magna Carta.
Now I recognize this one after Magna Carta kind of memorization technique because I used it extensively to learn kanji when I first started studying Japanese. I'd make stories that were easily memorable. As an example, consider the kanji 伯, which has a meaning kind of like chief or duke in Japanese. It's a combination of the person kanji 人 (which is abbreviated to looking like イ here) and the kanji 白 for white. And I would always use "Mr T" instead of person since person is too generic and not memorable. So the way I'd remember 伯 = person + white is chief is "
Mr T should have been
chief of the A-Team but they always pick the
white guy." So Chuck is doing something similar with one after Magna Carta for 1216 which I think it makes it wholly reasonable there would be no way in he would have mixed 1261 Rosella Dr with 1216 Rosella Dr.
I know these kind of techniques have been used for thousands of years to for example memorize speeches and such. But is this a widespread practice among lawyers too? To use these kind of memorization techniques to break things that would be really tough to remember into unrelated things that are much easier to picture? I know you guys just have to remember ridiculous amounts of information.