Practice tip for young lawyers: Judges are old.

No, we're not all old. I became a judge at 39, so I'm well aware that there's been time to enrobe a generation or two of younger judges since then who are not yet old. But even the "younger" judges are mostly older than your parental units.[1]

There are a lot of pre-SLAPP, pre-CEQA, pre-Family Code[2] judges out there and you have to take that into account. You aren't writing your brief for your classmates. You're writing it for "some old guy"[3] whose idea of cutting-edge technology is PowerPoint and Super Mario 64.