Rudeness

Stop listening to the sound of your own voice.

Just because you can offer the magic J.O.B. doesn't entitle you to act like an S.O.B.

So what tips are so urgent and not obvious to professionals working in a shared space they had to be sent to the whole office?

Rudeness, nasty emails and faxes (does anyone fax anymore?), snarky texts, whatever the written medium, society has lost its manners.

Reality check: Law degrees do not mean you are always right.

"If you don't f**king like the way things are going in this f**king courtroom, then don't come back."

Obscenity-laced courtroom transcript given star treatment by Rick and Morty.

The defendant was jaw-droppingly rude, although the judge wasn't great either.

This apology just doesn't cut it.

Don’t give jerks any more airtime in your mind than is absolutely necessary.

What tips or advice have you found to be helpful in working with jerks?

This judge just learned that cursing can be pretty expensive.

It turns out that his accuser wasn't exactly a paragon of fashion virtue.

One Yale law student has seriously ticked off some members of the Yale Club of New York City.

A state high court benchslaps a trial judge for making impartial and derogatory remarks in a child custody dispute.

Remember, as lawyers, your most valuable asset is your reputation. Do you want to be known in your community as an unethical, unnecessarily aggressive jerk who is always difficult to work with?

Why you gotta be so rude, Preet?

The thing is, being a jerk all the time doesn't make you a jerk, it makes you an a-hole.

The judge was so annoyed with the litigants in this case that she wrote a rather sarcastic ruling.

She was so pissed off and drunk that she accidentally referred to herself as a rich piece of sh*t.