My wife and I leave Monday for Italy and from there on a cruise down the Adriatic with a visit in Croatia to the island of Brac where my mother’s family are from. Dad was born in Italy and mother was from Croatia so this is a visit to family history locations. I’ll probably not post anything for the two weeks we are gone. Thanks for reading.
I leave this Sunday for Wyoming to teach for a few days at the Spence Trial College. I missed last year for the first time since the program started due to knee surgery. I did miss first year when Gerry invited me because I was in a lengthy trial in Oregon but made every one after that until last year, so I’m looking forward to the experience. In addition, to assisting with the training and the lectures I will give a talk….
There are many ways to deal with a difficult witness. Here brief simple example of one way of dealing with a problem witness from a case I tried several years ago involving a claim against an estate. The deceased , whom I will call Carlton Urall, was a very wealthy man in his late seventy’s.. His wife had been dead some time and he had developed a romantic relationship with a widow who lived in Canada. When died of a…