My friend Eric Fong is scheduled to start a major damage jury case in Seattle and we discussed jury selection ideas. That made me think I should post something in general about this subject. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS Have one sheet of paper with topics you want to cover – simple topics headings with large enough type you can glance at it and read it. Organize the topics by order of importance. Let someone else take notes. Maintain eye contact with the…
I was sworn in as an attorney in 1959. After 55 years of representing people, and not corporations, I have retired from the practice of law. My wife Lita, who has been my law partner as well, has retired with me. Today is the first day of our change in our life work. We have never played golf and don’t plan to start, but we have many unfinished and planned projects to occupy us. It’s been a great privilege representing…
London barrister Peter Brown wrote a book some years ago entitled “The Art of Questioning.” In one chapter he wrote: Last summer, a motorcyclist was arrested in Oxford, England, for speeding. The lady prosecutor bore in on the defendant with a curved question: “Mr. Setright, your motorcycle is capable, is it not, of exceeding the 70 mph speed limit? He answered: Certainly it can exceed that limit. But, the possibilities implicit in that physical ability are it relevant to these proceedings. We…