I’m a great believer that lawyers must use a checklist for every deposition they take no matter how experienced they are. If seasoned airplane pilots use checklists, lawyers should too. It’s too easy to get side tracked during a deposition and forget some area of questioning. What follows is an example of a verybasic and simplistic outline for the deposition of an eye witness in a damage case. I take an outline like this and revise it by adding areas…
Richard Heffern has written a book review of Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein. This science fiction story involves a five mile long and thousands of feet wide starship on its way to a distant planet in our galaxy. But several generations into the voyage the occupants have lost track of the fact they live on a starship or that they are on a voyage. The ship’s windowless interior prevents them from seeing the outside and the heavenly bodies…
I read that the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association is studying a possible change of its name. When the American Trial Lawyers Association decided to change its name to American Association for Justice,somestate trial organizations began to make the same kind of changes to their names. California was one of the largest to do so. There is no question but that a brand or name has an impact on people’s impressions. That’s exactly why Karl Rove and other Republican advisers…