Law Practice
Oct. 5, 1999
Calamitous Conference
"I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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I briefly met these six men Kipling mentions in his pithy poem several years after they had left his employ. I cannot tell you much about Kipling, but I can tell you I found offensive his notion of "keeping" serving men, although it just might have been his quaint way of expressing the employment relationship.
As for me, it is hard enough to keep my wits, let alone six serving men, notwithstanding their purported hone...
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