The Dynamic Duo

As you know, if you have been reading this post for any length of time, UltraMom is a very proud mother of four amazing, now adult, children. At various times, I relate to you their incredible feats, as well as their foibles. Today let me present to you, the Majestic Johnny, lawyer in training extraordinaire. First, let me quote to you part of an email recently received from him, and you will see what I mean.
“Over the past several months, I have been competing in the Vanderbilt Moot Court Competition which consisted of a written brief and competitive rounds or oral argument before panels of judges (consisting of professors and lawyers in early rounds, and actual judges in the last round). My partner Scott Goldman and I advanced from an initial pool of 73 teams to the final two, which was a lot of work. We had our final argument tonight, which was in front of two Federal appellate court judges and one justice from the eastern district of Tennessee federal court. We argued well in front of an audience of around 100, and the judges commended us on our preparation but ultimately the other team won. They were very good and we have no hard feelings about the loss. A lot of you knew about this competition before so I wanted to let you know how it turned out. For the rest of you, I suppose I just wanted to brag about an impressive loss We did end up 2nd our of 73 though, and as my brother Jim would say, “That ain’t bad.”

Jim was able to witness the finals, and he said Johnny and Scott were brilliant. He, and many others thought they had won, but unfortunately, Jim was not one of those aforementioned court judges. And Jim is totally correct: 2nd out of 73 teams ain’t bad at all; in fact it’s pretty dang good.

Proud UltraMom