DOM's blog is on fire. 🧯 He is covering opening statements in trials in the SDNY, the Trump - special master contretemps in West Palm ( we weren't asked, and we aren't available anyway), authoring articles about the blackness of certain robe wearer's hearts matching their in-court garb, and generally running the second-best legal blog around.
Here's what is on our mind.
Only Gerry Spence won all his cases. The rest of us mere mortals have to process disappointing results. Motions that are denied, verdicts that do not start off with the word "Not" and appeals that start with the word "affirmed".
It is part of the job. The measure of a lawyer is not how many times she is knocked down, but how many times she gets back up.
Tough times do not last; tough lawyers do.
We could go on and on with well-meaning aphorisms.
But what do you do when like Ali, you have to shake it off and get off the mat?
Scroll ahead to about 12:40 in round 4. Ali/Cooper was a great one.
(No, we haven't suffered any defeat. We just are searching for relevant topics to blog about. It cannot be all NGs and JOAs and large fees and reversed with instructions to discharge.).
2 comments:
Spence has not won all of his cases. He certainly has won a bunch and has an incredible streak. But not all.
Speaking of the ups and downs of lawyering, is anyone else following poor Bruce Jabos?
Here is his 50 page motion to dismiss one case: https://efactssc-public.flcourts.org/casedocuments/2022/893/2022-893_motion_126637_motion2ddismiss.pdf
And here is is his 100 page reply brief in another: https://efactssc-public.flcourts.org/casedocuments/2020/1602/2020-1602_brief_144376_reply2fcross20answer20brief2dmerits.pdf
I'd be lying if I said I'd read them in their entirety, but there are some doozies in there. For example, in the reply Bruce basically says that he apologized and admitted fault as a tactic, but that when he saw that the Bar was still going for more than a 90 day suspension that he changed his mind about that and isn't sorry any more. LOL
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