Question

The text says that lawyers often have to act like historians. How do historians figure out what happened in the past? How could thinking like a historian or help a lawyer do his or her job better?

Answer 1

Historians use past events and artifacts much as a lawyer uses past details, events, and dna to tie the person to the crime or to help the person they are defending.

Answer 2

Lawyers must often act as historians because through history they can understand certain aspects of today. As laws, penalties, norms, etc. Historians realize what happened in the past through books, research, etc.

You could think like a historian to help a lawyer, keeping in mind the measures that do well to as many people as possible.