(I leave today on an Alaska cruise out of Seattle with my wife Lita and all of the children, spouses and grandchildren – some forty people. When I return I start a lengthy jury trial so there may be some time without my positing in this blog. Thanks for reading it) I think we need to protect against becoming too comfortable with losing. It should always be painful and so painful you want to want to learn how to avoid …
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…
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…