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Month: May 2013

THE IMPORTANCE OF SIMPLICITY

THE IMPORTANCE OF SIMPLICITY

As of Sunday, my wife Lita are back from our Safari adventure. The route there was Seattle to Dubai. Dubai to Cape Town. Cape Town to Johannesburg. Johannesburg to Maun, Botswana and Botswana to the Safari Camp Mombo. That involves 30 hours of flying time and if this post is not perfectly clear it’s because I still have jet leg. At the risk of being too repetitive let me take a moment on communications. I spent yesterday on the motion…

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FOCUS GROUP STUDIES

FOCUS GROUP STUDIES

NOTE: My wife and I leave for Botswana Africa this week and I will not be posting anything for several weeks. Thanks  for checking back later —————————————————————————————- We all know the value  of focus studies. The problem is  there are so many ways  of  conducting focus studies that they can lead  to incorrect conclusions. My own view is that mock trial studies, that is presenting a mini trial with plaintiff and defense evidence  and argument is fraught  with the danger…

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TRIALPAD AND TRANSCRIPT PAD FOR TRIAL LAWYERS

TRIALPAD AND TRANSCRIPT PAD FOR TRIAL LAWYERS

It’s my policy to not promote products in this blog, but today is an exception. I’ve gone through a transition over the past  several months regarding a new experience in trial preparation. For many years  I have  relied upon two hole notebooks for all of my trial materials. I should have bought stock in Bindertek who makes the notebooks  I use because I’ve purchased  so many of them over the years. See:  www.bindertek.com. I put my  trial prepration and trial materials  in different  colored notebooks…

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