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I hit “delete” again, erasing the phrase: “and for social studies homework” from the motion draft. This was the 400th time that I typed dicta from my child’s NTI lesson into a brief since March of last year. Luckily, I previously avoided filing a motion for leave that incorporated a sentence reading “Jason, you do not have to ask to go potty during NTI.”
And honestly, accidentally incorporating Ms. Robinson’s second-grade classroom into my legal writing is the least of my concerns. During the pandemic my children have made appearances in more than one court appointment. They have been lively participants in family, circuit, and criminal court across the Commonwealth. And, I am not alone nor are my children alone in Zoom court. Mothers, and Practitioners, statewide endeavor in the daily struggle to silence their tiny co-counsels, consistently screaming for applesauce, during every motion hour. Other attorneys are loggin