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the brain and breaks the heart, that
there is not an honorable man among
its practitioners who would not give-
who does not often give-the warning,
'Suffer any wrong that can be done
you rather than come here!'" Because
Littleton subscribed the pleadings, he
adopted every word, every phrase as
his, including the mocking footnote.
Littleton's signature stood in
approbation of the contemptuous
language. Only "Albert R. Littleton"
followed by his State Bar number
appeared on the pleadings and with
it came full responsibility for every
disrespectful word. Littleton was
caught in an inescapable vise. He could
not admit he signed an important
court motion without reading it. No

careful practitioner would do so.
Moreover, how could he dare to blame
the footnote on an associate who
purportedly worked under his direct
supervision? The vise tightened more
because he even billed the client for
motion preparation time that consisted
of his putting an unread motion in his
briefcase. Judicial sanctions appeared
inevitable.
ALPS understood his friend's
soul-searching and exacted revenge
for selfish affronts and intellectual
dishonesty in a way only he could. His
vast store of knowledge retrieved the
biting observations of Charles Dickens
about a nineteenth century legal system
that Dickens also described as a "fogbank." Of course, John Gilbert realized

why ALPS inserted the footnote and
looked on it as a serendipitous life
changer from an insightful, sardonic
confidant. ALPS gave him a reason to
leave the firm and find a meaningful
career elsewhere. So Gilbert offered
ALPS a final thank you, and with
an emotional adieu disconnected
his computer line, left his card key
identification on his desk, turned off
the office light, and walked out the
door, renewed.
This article was reprinted with permission
from the Contra Costa County Bar Association
(CCCBA). You can view the original
online here: http://www.cccba.org/attorney/
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