Jamail Center for Legal Research
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Veal

We are born into crates of useful shapes
Don't grow too big, don't grow too fast, 
Just grow into a useful fate. 
Useful to whom?  You shouldn't ask. 
 

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Built Up

My God, I have to laugh.
All this work, and all I've done
Is built the prison (strong-I take pride in my work)
In which I find myself
Marking days on the wall with a bit of bone
Precious irreplaceable days. 

Kit Thornton is a graduate of the College of Law, West Virginia University. After law school he worked in a Public Defender's office and is now Deputy Director of the State Supreme Court of West Virginia where he is the director of the "Courtroom of the Future Project." Thornton also chairs the Law and Technology Committee for the West Virginia State Bar, and teaches law and technology at West Virginia State.