Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jan. 2, 2008
'Boston Legal Syndrome' Leads to an Etiquette Deficit in the Courts
Forum Column - By J. Craig Williams - Lawyers who ape the courtroom hysterics of their television counterparts are damaging their practice and dragging down the civility of their craft.
FORUM COLUMN
By J. Craig Williams
There are those lawyers, probably the great majority, who fit the definition of what I sometimes slanderously (and now libelously) refer to as "paper tigers." You know - the lawyer who pushes paper between lawyers and in and out of court. In other words, the kind of lawyer who doesn't try cases.
But not the now infamous Alan Shore of television's "Boston ...
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