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THE UPS AND DOWNS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

of practising law in federal court have never been more apparent than in the last couple of weeks. Literally.Have a case in federal court? Here are your choices: The Dyer Building and all the mold you can breathe or...the King Courthouse which has eleven floors, and ONE working elevator at any given moment. Don't even bother saying a word when you race into court 20 minutes late for a hearing. The Judge already knows. You were in the building a half hour ago, and that's how long you waited to get into an elevator. Meanwhile, the Wilkie Ferguson courthouse sits there like a gleaming glass joke, laughing and mocking the lawyers trudging around it on the way to the Mold or the Stairs. A marshal recently whispered to us that on some days NO elevators were working in the new courthouse...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).