Be Wary of "The Line"

From the recent Dade County Bar Association’s Judicial Luminaries Dinner:  Beware of how close you come to "the line" in making your arguments. Judges will remember when you’ve led them to make a decision that gets reversed on appeal because they went too far "over the line" at your urging.


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