self-promotion alert
Last Friday I was re-reading a writ petition I wrote last year - I had to reuse part of it for a new petition. It was weird because I kept marvelling at how amazingly good it was. It was completely compelling -- which is probably why the Court of Appeal took it and issued a trial stay! (Wish they'd set the fucking argument.) It was a really cool feeling to know that of all the attorneys I deal with, either on "my side" or "the other", I can only think of 2 attorneys that could have written it. One is my boss, Paul, though his writing lacks a certain flair, and often comes across as toooo clinical. The other is my friend Baba who eerily enough thinks almost *exactly* like me. It's weird. He'll call and say, "dude, let's say I've got X...." I'll tell him exactly what approach he was thinking of. Too bad he works at our evil "rival". He's pretty sarcastic in his writing too, but I have a little more wisdom, experience, and cynicism. :-> I've totally convinced him that the cynical answer is the right answer, and while the law is supposed to be aspirational, it doesn't work that way in practice. Anyway, I am fucking proud as hell of that brief. I need a raise.