> Where do lawyers get the term "as such"? I've seen it used as in the
> sentence below fairly often. It seems a short-cut for something but
> it just looks wrong to me:
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>> His father left his family when the defendant was in fourth grade.
>> As such, he left school to perform menial jobs to support his
>> family.
It looks wrong to me, too. I could see, "The defendant was abandoned by his father while in the fourth grade. As such...", where "such" would be a substitute for "abandoned".