It's the same instinct that leads to things like the sovereign citizen movement that thinks they can avoid going to prison for tax evasion by referring to themselves as JOHN SMITH, INC. in court documents.
It also has something in common with the well known xkcd comic with the punchline "why does your field need a whole journal".
It is possible to for clever legal arguments to do fairly amazing things. When Richard Covey invented the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) he all but repealed the estate tax for large estates. But it takes a hell of a lot of knowledge, hard work, and luck to come up with something like that. It's not the type of thing that's at all likely to happen when you haven't even bothered to study the area of law and learn the terms of art or read the case law and instead just google up some statutes and apply "common sense".
Clever legal arguments win individual cases. They don't change things very much. Change comes when those cases are adopted or, in the the case of GRATs, not immediately shot down by the legislature. It is not the lawyer that initiates the change. He or she provides the option and the larger society either adopts it or not. GRATs (and similar schemes) exist because they are tolerated. Covey's real innovation was in convincing the right people not to move against GRATs, and in gauging the mood of the country at the time. I wouldn't recommend going out on such a limb without appropriate backing. Politics isn;t meant to influence individual cases, but any widespread change beyond the single case is nothing but.
It also has something in common with the well known xkcd comic with the punchline "why does your field need a whole journal".
It is possible to for clever legal arguments to do fairly amazing things. When Richard Covey invented the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) he all but repealed the estate tax for large estates. But it takes a hell of a lot of knowledge, hard work, and luck to come up with something like that. It's not the type of thing that's at all likely to happen when you haven't even bothered to study the area of law and learn the terms of art or read the case law and instead just google up some statutes and apply "common sense".