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15 September 2017 / Richard Harrison
Issue: 7761 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Hamilton for lawyers

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How can a hip-hop musical become an inspiration for mediators? Richard Harrison shares his thoughts & a few plot spoilers below…

The Broadway hip-hop musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda is about to hit London and no doubt match its sensational success across the Atlantic.

For those not as yet exposed, it tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the US, who rose from humble, orphaned immigrant beginnings to fight in the war of independence against George III, became a successful lawyer, Treasury Secretary and founder of the national bank. Among other things.

A legal journal is no place to praise a masterpiece of musical theatre: to point out the wholly fitting use of modern beats melded with a collection of other genres or marvel at the verbal dexterity of the rhymes which compellingly and wittily propel the narrative with its authentic twists on real history and human emotion and motivation. However, there are aspects which might strike a chord with the legal profession.

As lawyer: non-stop

Hamilton having fought in the war of independence and participated in the rebel victory at

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