Above the Law: The Vanilla Ice Rule by Matthew W. Schmidt:<\/p>\n
Litigators must remember that “anything less than the best is a felony.”
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I\u2019ve always found \u201cIce Ice Baby\u201d to be a deeply inspirational work. Not the whole song, just one line near the end of its first verse: \u201cAnything less than the best is a felony.\u201d In college, I would often listen to it over and over. I have no special insight into how much Rob Van Winkle, as he was born, put into this lyric. Maybe he agonized over it for months or years, then he waited for a beat worthy of it that would catapult him into fame. Maybe it just shot him one night as divine inspiration. Either way, it\u2019s a masterful line. In twelve catchy syllables, it utterly rejects mediocracy and the entire idea that \u201cgood enough\u201d is good enough. It sets its own standards, and pledges to live up to them. It condenses Whiplash into three seconds.<\/p>\n
Too often as lawyers, we convince ourselves that imperfection is acceptable. We tolerate a \u201cgood enough\u201d attitude in ourselves and others. It\u2019s a vicious, petty tendency that does nothing so much as reduce humanity to something base and undeserving of the name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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