I’d like you to consider the relationship between the theater and being a trial lawyer. As a trial lawyer you need to be a script writer. Not in the sense of making up facts, but in the sense of deciding how to tell the story. The framing you select and the characters you decide to introduce from the actual facts of your case. You need to be the director. You have to decide h0w to present your client’s story and…
I’ve written before about making objections at trial. http//plaintifftrial lawyer tips.com/should-you-object-or-not It is not a simple subject. My inclination is to avoid making objections even when I could except when it is truly called for. We know that an objection calls attention to the subject involved so some thought about what to object to is important. On the other hand jurors have watched enough television that they expect the lawyer to object. I don’t think objections in general are a problem…
It didn’t take me many mediations or settlement conferences to figure out that if I didn’t get it in writing when the deal was made there would be problems. Call it buyers remorse or just lawyers being lawyers there would be proposed revisions and issues raised we never discussed or had already resolved. If you allowed the other side or the mediator to try to put the deal in writing it took too long and it opened the door to…