Any baseball fan or former player has lived through those games. You know, the agonizing ones where nothing seems to go right. The umps don’t give your team the close calls. The ball never takes a friendly bounce. And routine fly balls, easy outs on any other day, get dropped.

Lawyers have days like that, too.  At some point, no matter how much time we invest on a matter, or how much research we do, the work product will receive a sharp critique from a more senior lawyer. That criticism, while usually meant to be constructive, can sting.