After the last champagne toast and our usual resolutions to exercise more and eat less, we gave serious thought to the more important question of how we, as lawyers, could make 2024 a better year. Here are some of our thoughts:

We resolve to conduct ourselves in accordance with the standards set by the Commission on Professionalism; with “professional integrity, personal courtesy and absence of bias.” We recognize that our clients do not benefit from aggressive tactics that fail to adhere to that standard.