Keep Your Head Out of the Sand

Referring to a lawyer's “...unwise and misplaced strategic choice to litigate, ostrich-like, with his head in the sand," the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision granting a dismissal of a lawsuit after a lawyer failed to respond to a summary judgment motion.

Why didn't the lawyer respond?  His computer wasn't functioning properly.

Start practicing now.  Double-check.  "Oops, I thought the final exam was on Wednesday" doesn't cut it.  "I didn't hear about the review session."  Ouch.

See: http://ow.ly/16YWE5