As summer approaches, we renew our plea/rant against ties and jackets in the middle of the summer in South Florida, on a planet that is overheating.
Zoom has shown us that lawyers can attend court virtually without the entire justice system collapsing because of a perceived lack of respect for the court. Some lawyers, like Rumpole, attend a zoom hearing in jacket and tie and shoes shined. Other lawyers attend zoom from their car in a golf shirt.
Somehow, the dignity of the court has survived and justice marches on.
There is NO reason to require a person, when it is 95 degrees out with 100% humidity, to trudge into a courtroom wearing a JACKET and a tie. Think about that- judges make some lawyers- not all- wear a jacket. The determining factor is the gender of the lawyer. One gender can dress in a cool and appropriate manner while still maintaining a professional look. The other gender must wear a jacket and tie.
Does this sound reasonable to you?
Can someone defend the current practice, because we cannot.
I am willing to do a short sleeve dress shirt with bow tie.
ReplyDeleteYou see, I've always been ahead of the curve
ReplyDeleteJudge Gross used to issue an order permitting guayaberas in the summer.
ReplyDeleteIf Miami had a parking garage this may not be such an issue. Short of maybe New Orleans, we must live in the most humid, tropical big city in America. Yet we have a crumbling POS courthouse where you have to park a quarter mile away and trudge across a parking lot in your suit.
ReplyDeleteThis is not to mention the county ASAs, who have to walk about five blocks lugging their boxes and exhibits.
This is not an experience judges, parking their Benz SUV mommy-mobiles inside REG, are familiar with.