May It Please The Court
Your
Honor, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Litigants, Witnesses,
Clerks, Bailiffs, Officers, Custodial Staff, and Valued Members of the Gallery:
Appearing
before you today are Ray and Patricia (The Happy Planner and Miss Demeanor, respectively) two attorneys - members of the bar, duly sworn -
who have fled left the practice law in the pursuit of
more rewarding opportunities. At the moment, these opportunities
significantly involve demanding clients, arcane rules, hostile
takeovers, well-reasoned arguments and seemingly random, uninformed
judgments.
Aside from not having to wear suits, it's like we never left
the courthouse.
On or about each week, one Counsel of Record shall post thoughts, ruminations, observations, theses or queries in the form a letter to the other. This pleading shall be answered in writing in a timely fashion by Opposing Counsel. Original Counsel shall have an opportunity for rebuttal. Et voila! We get a new subject.
Worry not, the subjects we discuss will almost never actually have anything to do with law.
Easy peasy:
1) One of us picks a topic
2) The other responds in a reasonable amount of time
3) The original poster gets a last shot in, if he or she desires
Like Pong. Or table tennis. Or proper tennis, for that matter. Picture that awesome "game of questions" scene in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. No? Oh, really, you should see it. It's brilliant and it almost counts as having read Shakespeare.
Respectfully Submitted this 28th day of December, 2013 by Patricia
* In true lawyerly fashion, Ray will likely post his own description of what we plan. It may or may not bear any resemblance to the statements profferred above herein.
