Punctuation

[Allen165]

"I was young and impressionable, and I assumed that all lawyers stood for what was right and good, after all, law was about what was right and good."

Shouldn't there be a semicolon before "after all"?

Thanks.

 

[Heterological]

Yes, there should. The clauses on either side are independent, and must therefore be joined by either a conjunction (which "after all" is not) or a semicolon.

 

[Barb_D]

(Or a period/full stop.)