That's Why I am a Judge Now
IN a High Court a junior lawyer was asking for an adjournment because her senior could not be present. The Judge tried to persuade her to argue but she was most reluctant and was pleading pathetically for the adjournment. The judge said, “This is your best chance to argue a case; please go ahead, we will all help you and we will not decide the case until your senior appears”, but the junior lawyer was adamant. Then the judge asked her, “will your lawyer take you to task for arguing the case?; After the very first case that I argued in the absence of my senior, I was dismissed by him and that is why I became a High Court Judge – otherwise I would have still been a junior”