A friend of mine who is a great trial lawyer has been in a lengthy jury trial with two defense lawyers. The atmosphere in the court room is high octane with the lawyers at each other’s throats. I sent my friend this note. He told me later that he had, with great effort, figured this out himself before I wrote and had managed to get control of himself. I think the advice I gave is right and here it is:…
I’ve filed a claim of damages in a case where a man was shot to death in an Everett parking lot by the police. I don’t usually take police cases of this kind because I have so many family members who are in law enforcement, but this is a case that I felt needed to be legally prosecuted. The family waited for over three months for the police to provide an explanation or report, but had not even been given…
I’ve talked about one page notes during trial in several different context’s. The idea of a one page reminder is tokeep one focused on thekey issues, to force simplification and to provide notes for reference that are easily used. This is a one page outline of an opening statement in ajury trial involving a badly injured man. This portion is the damage portion only. The case involved a manelectrocuted while working resulting in severe burns and multiple traumatic amputations. I…