Litigation & Trials Finding the Human Story Diane Appleton Reeves To enhance your effectiveness in litigation, find and tell the nuanced human stories of your clients’ cases.
Litigation & Trials Examining the Expert John Donley The author offers some courtroom techniques that stray from the standard rituals, to add to your tool kit when examining experts.
Litigation & Trials Presenting Yourself on Social Media Raffi Melkonian Lessons on how to present yourself on social media to the benefit of your practice, reputation, and personal life.
Litigation & Trials Judges Should Social Distance—on Social Media Hon. M. Sue Kurita Judges are a vulnerable population in the social media world, where the Code of Judicial Conduct, case law, and advisory ethics opinions can be applied to the unwary or the unwise.
Litigation & Trials The Sentence: A One-Dimensional Approach David Greenwald Efficient, persuasive sentences are not only good in and of themselves; they provide a clean workspace for the more difficult task of constructing paragraphs, arguments, and briefs.
Litigation & Trials Killing Me Softly with Your Song: How Your Audience Goes About Understanding You George D. Gopen Only 3–5 percent of adults primarily learn conceptually, yet most lawyers prepare their material almost exclusively for their conceptual learners.
Litigation & Trials A Deaf Litigator Reconciles Her Differences Melissa Felder Zappala Many lawyers feel they are not capable in some way., but we would all do well to remember that each of us comes with our own need for accommodations.
Litigation & Trials Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Lee Stapleton Zoom kept the wheels on during the pandemic, but it seems as though the wheels may now be coming off. Zoom is expedient, but it does not encourage excellence.
Litigation & Trials An Interview with: Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo Ashish Joshi How does someone with aspirations to become a judge best present oneself to the world? In the case of Judge Vilardo, it was a compelling combination of quiet brilliance and disarming humility.
Litigation & Trials First and Last Impressions Daniel W. Van Horn For many clients, their first impression of our civil justice system is that it is expensive, likely more expensive than they can afford.
Litigation & Trials Stage Notes: Lessons from the Theater to Apply in Producing Your Case Hon. Barbara M. G. Lynn By telling a case’s story clearly, efficiently, and, when appropriate, dramatically, effective advocates can ensure the best chances for success.
Litigation & Trials The Successful Trial Lawyer’s Pre-Suit Case Plan Theodore “Ted” E. Karatinos Crafting a thoughtful pre-suit case plan will bear fruit. Put a pre-suit case plan to work for your clients today.
Litigation & Trials Hard Heads, Soft Skills: Two Traits to Survive as a Young Litigator Chris Patton For young lawyers to succeed, it is not enough to teach them technical skills; it is just as important to mentor them on less concrete, but equally essential, soft skills.
Litigation & Trials The Upside-Down World of Privilege Waivers Kenneth R. Berman It’s time to reframe the rules on attorney-client-privilege waivers and realign them with the purpose the privilege was meant to serve.
Litigation & Trials What Litigators Can Teach Americans Once They (Re-)Learn it Themselves Robert E. Shapiro Today, senior litigators are wont to teach their younger colleagues that litigation is war. It’s not.
Litigation & Trials Work and Play Kenneth P. Nolan Even though we’re not desperate migrants struggling to our land of opportunity, lawyers shouldn’t minimize the stress of our jobs.
Litigation & Trials Ethical Signing and Notarizing Michael Downey Too many lawyers get in trouble for cutting corners or making misrepresentations regarding the signing and notarization of documents.
Litigation & Trials Visual Presentation Helps Juries See the Law Robert A. Clifford and Sarah F. King Research indicates that somewhere between 65 and 80 percent of the world’s population may be visual learners.
Litigation & Trials Partisan Judges Lonny Hoffman Today, there’s a widespread sense that at least some of the sitting justices act unconstrained by long-accepted norms of impartiality.
