Sexist language

One of the failings of the English language is that it doesn't deal awfully well with what these days is called “gender neutrality”, but more properly could be called “sexual indifference”, except that that sounds like something else altogether.

This wiki, in large part, speaks of professional attorneys in the abstract. In this day and age, an officer of the courts is marginally more likely to be a woman than a man, but in general could be either. This creates challenges when using pronouns.

Generally a pronoun is to be welcomed: it’s more idiomatic and easier on the ear that the lawyer’s usual stand in “such ~”. But it does commit one to a gender: “he”, or “she”, “him” or “her” — no-one likes to be referred to as “it”.