It was truly a sense of relief by everyone who watched it, that they were not lawyer cats.
— 394th District Judge Roy Ferguson of Texas, commenting on attorney Rod Ponton’s Zoom fail that went viral outside of the legal profession, bringing a bit of joy to the rest of the world. Ponton had a cat filter on during his Zoom court session, and was unable to remove it at the start of the hearing, saying the now famous line, “I’m here live. I’m not a cat.”
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