Law Practice
Dec. 29, 2023
Blasts from the past
Times have changed for the better. On the other hand, interrogatory extensions didn’t have to be confirmed in writing, meet and confers weren’t required, and summary judgment motions often took less than a month.
Anthony J. Mohr
Judge (ret.)
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Judge Mohr currently is a fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard.
Listen up, all you whippersnappers. Close your screens and spend five minutes reading about what life in the law was like in grandpa’s day. I say grandpa because grandmas rarely counted in 1972, when several hundred of us, including me, trooped into the Music Center, raised our hands, and the moment after Justice Otto Kaus swore us into the Bar, he said, “Counsel, be seated.” To collect some remembrances, I vacuumed my brain and reached out to fellow baby-boomers – a...
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