Judge David Langham
The practice of law, it is sometimes said, is not that difficult. Perhaps anyone could do it? My old friend Horace Middlemeir finds great humor in suggesting that anyone can practice anything, that don t make em any good at it. There is some poetic license here, as he usually says that in running down other professions, but it is perhaps somewhat humorous nonetheless.
The humor of referring to it as a practice and not a profession returned to me recently reading findings from the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC), interpreting the Code of Judicial Conduct and finding the practice of law. See, while we might argue that almost anyone can practice law, we know fairly clearly that judges cannot. Oh, there is a minimal exception in the Code, Canon 5(g) says