His was the first South Florida legal blog, and the best (federal) legal blog around. Happy Birthday to SDFL blog and its creator David Markus!
We owe a debt to Mr. Markus and his blog. Many years ago, before Twitter and Snap-Tok, and Intergram, in a day when flip phones were cool, we saw two blogs, one out of NYC and DOM's. One gloomy afternoon, while whiling the hours away in our office, staring out the window waiting for inspiration to hit us on a nicer way to tell the 3rd DCA that the trial judge was a dofus (edited for inappropriate content), we thought "why not?" and blog legal history was made in South Florida.
But David was first, and he paved the way, and for that he deserves all the accolades.
Of course, our blogs are fundamentally different. David puts his name on his blog, which requires him to be more circumspect in his coverage of judges and issues. Like all of us, he is bound by codes of professional ethics and responsibility that doesn't allow for lawyers to say what they really think about the wearer of the black robe. And...and don't underestimate this- David has to go to court and practice before the same judges in the courts he is blogging about. So naturally his blog covers the federal legal community in ways much different than we do- which is at the fringes of decency, and in the safety of opaqueness.
We've had our differences over the years.
We don't agree on the historical and formal language of pleadings. We are formal. Proper. Reserved. We like "Comes Now" and DOM- a Gen Ex-er with all their informality, is progressing towards "Hey Judge!...".
But (and as Bruce Springsteen sings in his live performance of Tenth Avenue Freeze Out -"This here is the important part!")- we all know that you can do no better * than hiring Mr. Markus and Ms. Moss, and their team when scurrilous accusations are hurled your way.
SO, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SDFL BLOG. Thank you for leading the way.
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* Not including the author of this blog
6 comments:
Thanks so much Rumpole. Our blogs are a good yin and yang. SDFLA may have been first. But your blog is the best and serves a very important purpose. Who would have thought that we would be doing this all these years. Thanks for what you do.
And welcome back to the start your day the right way, and I'm Hanzy
And I'm Coco.
Hanzy: And that was a great first segment with Vanilla Ice. Who knew he was into macrame?
Coco: And I'm going home with a dynamite potholder, so like it was a great segment.
Hanzy: How did you spend the Fourth?
Coco: Well, Joe the Rescue Parrot and I went to the Santa Monica pier and Joe entertained a group of retired podiatrists dancing to the Pointer Sisters. I carry a small boom box so it all worked out. And then we watched a hot dog eating contest while sipping those tropical drinks out of a coconut with straws.
Hanzy: Sounds like a real exciting time. Coming up we have Rachel Ray talking about the importance of using a daily moisturizer. You moisturize don't you Cooc?
Coco: Always Hanzy. You still holding Apple?
Hanzy: Got my 650 shares and ain't doing nothing with them while it runs.
Coco: I'm jealous.
Hanzy: I see Rachel Ray in the wings, so lets take our second break with a work from Prada which makes a men's boat shoe that I know you love. Back in 90 seconds. This is Hanzy and Coco and start your day the riggggght wayyyy!
Thank g-d the boys are back. Love ya Hanz and coc
The best part of the H&C posts are waiting to see the new sponsor at the end of the first break. Love it. And the guests...lmfao. Vanilla Ice doing macrame with the boys. Genius!
OMG...Rumpole...SOS...I am so damn bored. Tt's a short holiday week and everyone is out, work is dead but my vacation isn't for another couple of weeks. You haven't posted in days. Please entertain us!
I'm going to start using "Hey Judge!" in my motions now
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