Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

Malcom Gladwell’s book Blink about how choices are made explained the workings of the unconscious mind process. It demonstrated how we form our opinions and make our decisions at a level we are not even conscious about and can’t intellectually access. Now there is a report of a study which dealt with scanning the brains of people making simple decisions. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (June 27, 2008) scientists discovered that brain appears to make a…

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The lawsuit by the City against the Sonics basketball club has been tried to a federal judge without a jury for the past week. The Seattle PI today points out that the lease, which is the subject of the controversy,had a clause requiring the loser to pay attorney fees and costs. The paper reports that former senator SladeGorton is being paid at $685 per hour to advise the city and their trial lawyer Paul Lawrence is paid at $420. It…

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The newspaper reports that during the lawsuit by the City of Seattle against the Sonic’s basketball organization the following question was asked on cross examination by the lawyer for the city: Q.You understoodthe risk that you would be sitting here today without a new building, without a renegotiated lease, with a lease that obligatesyou to perform through the 2009-2020 season, a lease under which there over $20 million a year operating losses at the time you signed this assumption document,…

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