The title really says it all. We’d heard about the Florida judge who had to sternly remind attorneys to dress up for Zoom hearings and claimed to have seen attorneys appear from under the covers and wearing a cover-up poolside, but frankly we didn’t believe it was really as bad as the judge made it out to be. Honestly we figured someone showed up without a properly styled coif and the judge let the slippery slope take over because there’s no way attorneys would really show up to what qualifies as open court in a state of undress. We’re professionals here.
We were wrong.
During a recent California court hearing, viewers were treated to this split screen:
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