Shares0 I often stick to my knitting: I write columns about things of interest to in-house lawyers or to lawyers generally. But I’ve been writing this column for more than a decade now, heaven help me, and I occasionally branch out into other subjects. I wrote one column a while back about whether my book, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law, and law firms in general, were “woke.” (My thesis was that both my book, and large law firms, insist that one strive for excellence. If excellence cannot be defined, or is an improper goal, then neither my book nor the firms are woke.) I had my adult children, far more in tune with wokeness than I am, read the column before I published it. Their response was violent: “You can’t publish that, Dad! You’ll get fired!”