I’ve been involved in the Wyoming Spence Trial College from the day it first began because I believe in Gerry’s concept about teaching lawyers how to be great trial lawyers. I read the publication Warrior each month looking for new ideas. This month the issue was devoted to criminal defense and capital defense work. I didn’t think there would be much in that issue that would benefit me in my civil damage work, but I was wrong. One example was…
I ‘d like to be immodest and tell you that my wife Lita and I just returned from Las Vegas where I was inducted into the 2010 American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. What made it such an honor for me personally were the other members. Last year Bobby Lee Cook, Morris Dees, Fred Levin, stanley Preiser and Gerry Spence were inducted. Non living members include Melvin Belli,Clarence Darrow, William Kunstler and Johnnie Cochran. This year Phillip Corboy, Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, Russ…
I have two cases I’ve become involved in which the media has an interest. One is a tragic explosion and fire which injured and killed workers at a refinery near Anacortes, Washington state. The other is case of a drunk man who was sitting in his car in parking lot outside a bar when the cops arrived after being called by patrons inside with whom he had had an argument. Officer Troy Meade of the Everett police department was on the driver’s side, the…