A senior partner, furious with a mistake made by a young lawyer, screamed, “Aren’t there some things I’m entitled to assume you just know?”
No, the young lawyer wasn’t me. And I was certainly glad of it that day. But the answer to senior partner’s question isn’t all that obvious. Or at least it wasn’t obvious to that gobsmacked young lawyer on the receiving end of the tirade.
“Gobsmacked” is a British
