Briefs are fun to write, although they are tedious as hell. You get to tee off with your driver and there's very little way of hitting it out of bounds. As excited as we all are, tonight, we must remember that NOK will file a compelling reply brief.
Today, I won a case in an appellate proceeding, because, we caught the other lawyer reading the headnotes of the cases that he cited, without reading the full text of the case. He found a couple of points in the head notes that he thought supported his position and he went with them, without ever thinking that my people might read the whole case and abstract it. When I stood up and read the summaries of the cases, which we had prepared, the other attorney did everything, but, crawl under the table. The other lawyer crawling under the table- Priceless- JMHO- Oso