For the final project, I will continue what I began in my midterm essay. Specifically, in that I essay I discussed ways in which the training that law students receive can be supplemented and extended by Burke scholarship. Ultimately, I want to demonstrate that Burke's work offers law students fertile ground for developing their legal skills, or rather, their "Equipment for Lawyering." In the project, I will explore Burke's idea of logomachy, or a war of words, and will use that theme as a way to organize my discussion on how lawyers, despite what they might believe, are ill equipped for the war of words that goes on both in the courtroom and in the documentation that they create for their work. In particular, the training that they receive positions them to develop arguments that "elicit not assent, but instead, distrust, resistance, and even resentment." This quotation comes from Gerald B. Wetlaufer's article, "Rhetoric and Its Denial in Legal Discourse." I see Burke's work as offering numerous points from which to help lawyers expand their idea of argumentation and become better understanders and users of language. I intend to use Burke's Permanence & Change, Attitudes Toward History, A Grammar of Motives, and A Rhetoric of Motives as my primary texts. My goal for this project is to submit the paper to this summer's Burke conference at Villanova University.