A great recent post at What About Clients? highlights a policy that will benefit most trial lawyers. Basically, no later than 60 days before trial, take a fresh look at everything. Here’s how it…
Read Articlehttps://youtu.be/fgIBG8q1Gjc In this clip from A Few Good Men, two Marines are on trial for a murder on their training base. The Marines’ defense is that they were ordered by officers to give the…
Read ArticleA great post on Associate’s Mind, entitled “Millennial Jurors: Entertain Us,” discusses the challenges facing trial lawyers trying to communicate with Gen-Y jurors. In addition to prognostications about how these young adults can’t sit…
Read ArticleYesterday I wrote about why discovery should be limited to questions or requests which are directly calculated to lead to useful information. I just need point out a single exception to this view: discovery…
Read ArticleAnyone who has argued a complicated summary judgment motion knows the challenges of making sure the record is robust to provide for appellate review, if necessary. This is particularly true given increasingly “jammed” law…
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