1. Integrity: Upholding strong moral and ethical principles, being honest, and acting sincerely and transparently. Demonstrating consistency between words and actions.
2. Empathy and Compassion: Showing understanding, kindness, and compassion towards others. Being able to put oneself in someone else’s shoes, recognize their emotions, and offer support.
3. Respect: Treating others with dignity, regardless of their background, beliefs, or social status. Valuing diversity and promoting inclusivity.
4. Responsibility: Taking ownership of one’s actions, being accountable, and fulfilling obligations. Recognizing the impact of one’s choices and making decisions considering the well-being of others and the broader community.
5. Empowerment: Encouraging and supporting others to reach their full potential. Inspiring and uplifting those around you through positive influence, mentorship, and encouragement.
6. Continuous Growth: Being open to learning, self-improvement, and personal development. Embracing challenges and seeking growth opportunities, both intellectually and emotionally.
7. Altruism and Service: Showing a genuine desire to help others and make a positive difference. Engaging in acts of kindness, volunteering, and supporting causes that contribute to the greater good.
8. Resilience: Demonstrating the ability to bounce back from setbacks, overcome challenges, and maintain a positive mindset in the face of adversity. Persevering and learning from failures.
9. Positive Impact: Striving to positively impact individuals, communities, or society as a whole. Taking actions that contribute to social, environmental, or humanitarian causes.
10. Authenticity: Being true to oneself, embracing individuality, and expressing thoughts, beliefs, and values genuinely. Acting in alignment with personal convictions and not conforming to societal pressures or expectations.

It’s important to note that no one is perfect, and being an outstanding human being is a lifelong journey of growth and self-improvement. Different people may prioritize different aspects, and being outstanding is ultimately a subjective perception influenced by cultural, societal, and individual perspectives.

Has America become a society for the attorneys, by the attorneys and of the attorneys? Has truth and justice gone by the wayside as this nation has prospered? Have a common man lost any chance of truth and justice without an attorney? Is this how the future of justice looks like?

The very foundation of humans is justice. We have yearned for justice since the inception of our existence. We have made tremendous progress and yet we are sliding backwards as the attorneys have taken over the execution of justice. Though attorneys are trained to do what they are supposed to do. The worst is the Judges of the US courts who come ill-prepared to the court room. There is nothing to hold the judges accountable. I have had a number of instances where the judges come poorly prepared to the court room and then try to get a sense of it during the hearing. It is shocking and then they end up ruling on an impulse. They become instruments of killing the truth.

We need to take action to restore truth and justice in the American courts. Our great legal system has to have unfettered access to justice by the common man and woman without the attorneys, and judges need to have a certain level of accountability. They are the final line of defense against attorneys who can misrepresent and distort facts without any compunction or conscious. In my book that is lying and attorneys as officers of the court are not supposed to lie but they lie openly without anyone calling them out.

It is time to take action. It is time to correct the imbalances created over the last century as the society has moved away from truth and justice. Truth is not relative. It is absolute and it needs to be restored along with justice.

American courts can not become the places where the truth dies.