“When we make phone calls, just make the call. Don’t have your secretary call the other person and then put them on hold so you can grace them with your telephonic presence. It’s not a power move, it’s obnoxious and we can do better.”

That snippet of advice came from Alexis Lambert, deputy general counsel for the Department of Lottery, in a 58-second video that manages to sandwich the advice between an age joke, talk of surviving cancer, and pandemic safety tips.

It’s one of a series of short videos promoting various aspects of professionalism that is proving very popular for the Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism and the Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism.