Appropriate Attire

By: dmc-admin//May 25, 2009//

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Apparently, some of the federal judges at the Seventh Circuit Bar Association convention this week believe that some attorneys’ clothing choices are inappropriate.

It seems pretty simple to me: wear your conservative paisley ties at trial, especially when you do lots of child sexual assault cases, and save the whimsical ties for scheduling conferences. I’m sure with women, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

But still, you know somebody has life tenure when he says something like this: “Central District of Illinois chief judge Michael McClusky picked up the theme, apparently dismayed that some women come into court wearing ‘skirts so short that there’s no way they can sit down and blouses so short there’s no way the judges wouldn’t look.’”

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