When Katharine H. Parker, lately of Proskauer Rose, had to sign off one final time to assume her new position as a Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York, she knew she wasn’t going to go out with the usual wall of canned platitudes. Parker dared to think a little outside the box.
What we got instead was a clever mock order from the new judge to the Proskauer faithful. The best mandate though?
Don’t let me take myself too seriously after I become a judge.
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This order suggests you’re already keeping it real, Judge Parker!
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