My son's soccer game this past Sunday had a huge breakout of sportsmanship. The kids played their hearts out for twenty-five minutes of a thirty minute game. With about five minutes left in the game, my son and his coaches daughter decided they had enough and were going to sit down in their own goal. Now this is four year old soccer, by the end of the game we are at the end of these kid's attention span. As soon as the coach figured out the kids were sitting out in the goal, he went to get our kids out of the game and back in play. He met with very little success.
No sooner that he evicted our wayward kids out of the goal, other kids started to sit in the goal. Within a matter of seconds, both teams, in their entirety, were sitting in the same goal together having a great time. As the parents rushed the field to photograph this incredibly cute display of sportsmanship, we all determined just who the real winners of the game were.
In the practice of law, we call this professionalism. While it is the duty of each lawyer to zealously represent their client, we owe a duty to the courts, our colleagues and our clients to fight hard for out clients but not be so hard that we are ashamed to meet them face to face at the grocery store.
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