Judge Uses The Ultimate Insult Against An Attorney:
She told an attorney that a pro se litigant did better work. Ouch.
Cannon, who was a state prosecutor before being elected a judge in 1996, turned on O'Brien, saying the case was "no laughing matter" and castigating him for submitting a brief that, she said, didn't include attorney names and was "dripping with sarcasm." "It is reprehensible," a steaming Cannon said, calling the Oct. 5 brief an editorial not fit for court.
The judge said an imprisoned pro se litigant had submitted a more appropriate brief in another case earlier that day and added that Karen Daniel, a Northwestern University School of Law professor who represents McKinney, had never submitted such a brief. O'Brien had difficulty interrupting her to call attention to the attorney names on the last page with Friedlieb's signature.
Source: Law.com - Chicago Judge Lambastes Sidley Lawyers Over Brief
Too bad Law.com couldn’t have bothered to get a copy of the brief. I know I for one would like to see it.