Beds' latest column is out and available
here, and it's about writing, ... sort of. He's been writing columns for over 35 years, and writing appellate opinions for two decades. Yet he reveals, "I still approach the keyboard wondering how many arteries I will have to open and whether we couldn't use a new garage" (i.e., find some other task to do rather than write).
No one really likes to write. It's too personal. It's like opening an artery and hoping people approve of the color of your blood and don't think you made too much of a mess displaying it.
But this preamble about writing is a springboard to address an important aspect of professionalism:
What I'm suggesting is that you strive to practice in such a way that after doing battle with someone for decades, you remain friends, capable of laughing at yourselves. I'm asking you to practice law as a human being rather than a bot.
"And do as adversaries do in law; strive mightily but eat and drink as friends." That's William Shakespeare. And it's a helluva lot more important than whether you can construct a model sentence.
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