Greetings from france
My failure to up date this site is due to the fact we have been in France. My wife Lita and I attended a plaintiff’s trial lawyer seminar in Paris for a day before moving on and I got some good ideas. The one idea I liked was from an employment lawyer who was talking about the problem of getting his clients to open up about emotional issues. He decided to take each of the items of emotional claims – anxiety,…
A cross examination reference sheet
I like to have a basic outline of ideas for cross examination that I can review at a glance. In addition, I often create a simple one page list of words, phrases or ideas that I might choose to use in cross. You shouldn’t be reading during your cross examination and you need to move with the flow of what is happening so these help lists have to be simple and brief. Here’s an example of a very simple outline from a case where the issues involved the failure…