The November issue of Los Angeles Lawyer (
here) includes an article (pp. 34-39) co-authored by Kimberly Knill (a Sr. Appellate Attorney at 4/3, and a past JNE Chair; and LASC judge George Bird) titled
Judicious Selection about the JNE Commission. (Former 2/1 Research Attorney, now-LASC judge, Frank Menetrez, is Q&A'd on p. 39.)
What's a good way of starting off a complicated 31-page opinion? Well, Beds' does it
like this today: "We embark here upon an admittedly lengthy voyage – slow going because we must proceed carefully in largely uncharted waters." Pure poetry, right?
Well, it gets better (of course). Footnote 2 starts out like this:
So that readers can have one place – this footnote – to check for the administrivia of party names and acronyms, we engage first in what poet Henry Reed would call “Naming of Parts.” There are four sets of defendants listed in the caption of the complaint: [etc.]
Gotta love that classic from the 1930's, "
administriva," a delightful portmanteau word that deserves wider usage!
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