Motion days are regrettably not what they were. Some lawyers tell me that they have not argued a motion in a courtroom for many months. Instead they argue them by phone or a Zoom videoconference. Back decades ago when I was a newly admitted member of the bar, which somehow seems simultaneously forever ago but just yesterday, biweekly motion days were a vibrant thing. For young lawyers it was an opportunity to meet and socialize with senior lawyers outside the courtroom and to learn from them while observing them arguing their motions before the court. In truth I think my being there virtually every other week made me, for better or worse, the lawyer that I was, the judge that I became and the mediator that I am.