Retired Justice Bedsworth's latest column is out: Bedsworth: Listening to Old Folks -- I find that the less people know about me, the more willing they are to listen to me. Mostly these are law students or young lawyers. I encourage them to work hard on their communication skills with old people because they're going to spend much of their career trying to communicate with old people.
This is a lesson I learned in my first months on the Court of Appeal: Don't just do what you'd planned; pay attention and do what the situation calls for.
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