I am scheduled to start a trial in a week involving a man who was injured while working. Our economist is scheduled to deliver a baby when the trial is going on so I needed to perpetuate her testimony. Here is the simple outline I prepared for her perpetuation deposition. We had discussed this before I used it so she knew the areas I wanted her to cover by these questions. This outline assumes the economist can explain fully the…
Everyone and his brother will have a viewpoint on who did the best job during any political debate. However, we, as trial lawyers, should also view them as learning opportunities for lessons about communications. Let me start with a local political debate between candidates for governor. The present Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna is running against a Democratic former member of congress, Jay Inslee. They held one of several debates last night. It should be noted that I am a…
In early September of this year I did a demonstration of a final argument at a plaintiff trial lawyer’s convention in another state. I was able to listen to some of the other speakers and I made some notes about what they said that made sense to me. Here are some random ideas I wrote down you might find helpful. A speaker about jury selection made the point that you should not ask the same question about an issue of each juror because the other…