http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/07/m ... shoes.html

Motion to Compel Defense Counsel To Wear Appropriate Shoes

Our lead trial counsel has a "lucky tie" that he wears every day (or at least he did during jury selection) even though it's getting a little threadbare. This is a fairly common habit among trial attorneys, and I haven't heard of anyone ever objecting to it.

A motion filed in Florida last month, though, contended that opposing counsel was trying to gain an unfair advantage by wearing homely old shoes:



According to the Palm Beach Post, Mr. Robb's footwear -- which he admits he has worn for 12 years now -- is indeed well known to the legal community there. Earlier this year, another plaintiff's counsel offered to buy him a new custom-made pair of shoes if he would stop wearing the ancient loafers. (Obviously, he declined.) Apparently, however, this is the first opponent to challenge the loafers by motion.

Circuit Judge Donald Hafele denied the motion, after which plaintiff's counsel Bill Bone reportedly also tried the free-shoe offer. Robb declined again. He told the Post the shoes had nothing to do with his success.

"I've been practicing law for 21 years," he said, "and Mr. Bone thinks he's finally cracked the key to my success?" Robb scoffed at the idea. "Gotta be the shoes," he said. "Like Michael Jordan." Robb claimed that he had been planning to finally retire his "trial shoes," as he called them, but said this had changed his mind. "[T]hey're back in play," he said. "You ride that horse until it completely collapses."

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Wonder what next. Making someone wear new undies instead of the very old ones that only the string is left?

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Wow.

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Welcome to the world of lawyers, where anything and everything is an excuse to yell at people.

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That's just... WOW.

Heck if they're sitting at the wrong angle would they even SEE the shoes??

That's a weak excuse to nippick...

I wouldn't want the guy who made that up as my lawyer.

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What's next?
Banning the use of wheelchairs for disabled lawyers?
Wouldn't want to "influence" the jury, now would we?

What a pile of bullshit.

I think it's rather funny.

But hey, that's just what lawyers do. Baseless conjecture. And, of course, he didn't actually win the trial.

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I think that is absolutely hilarious! Gotta love some of the bullshit that people get away with these days!

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...This is just sad. They can't even prove that the shoes-or the remarks-actually influence the jury, so what's the point?!

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because crappy old shoes are as necessary to mobility as a wheelchair

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Ah, looking at the stupidity of idiots these days makes me feel good. But seriously, how did this guy become a lawyer?

Hmm... I wonder what country has the highest quality idiots... According to stereotypes, it's America, but that's just conjecture.

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How silly X) At least he has holes in the bottom of his shoes and not the tops D: (My friend wear shoes so old the tops have holes in, even though he can easily buy a new pair, he doesn't get any sympathy, people just think he's a cheapskate and lazy).

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