DOM's blog repeated the 11th Circuit's announcement will live stream oral arguments. What a hoot!
Judge: Counsel you are asking this court to reverse a criminal conviction based on the admission of 404b evidence. When was the last time we did that?
Lawyer: Ummm....when Eisenhower was President?
Judge: Exactly.
Now everyone can see you lose.
THE PAPER CHASE
Not us, but the generation of lawyers just before us were most likely influenced to attend law school by the novel The Paper Chase by John J.Osborn, Esq, who passed away this week.
The book became a movie starring John Houseman as Professor Kingsfield, and then a television series.
But John Houseman will forever be the archetypical law school professor, frightening students into studying the law.