September 27, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Staging Law's Stories'The lawyers' work at trial is to put on evidence that congeals around the central action in the form of an explanatory narrative.'
By Randy D. Gordon
7 minute read
June 29, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Stages of Rehearsal: Trial PreparationThere is general agreement that witness preparation serves three ends: educating witnesses, educating lawyers, and enhancing testimony delivery.
By Randy D. Gordon
7 minute read
May 11, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
All the World (or at Least the Whole Courtroom) is a StageManipulation of the arena of the courtroom can be clever, picayune and sometimes hilarious, but every movement has three goals in mind: to be seen clearly, to be heard distinctly, and to fill as much of the arena as the court will allow.
By Randy D. Gordon
7 minute read
March 21, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
Simile or Metaphor? Is Trial Like Theater? Or is it Theater?Seen as a swirl of activity, the performances taking place within a courtroom are much more complex than what is popularly thought of merely as the lawyers acting out roles, says Randy D. Gordon, the Office Managing Partner of the Dallas office of Duane Morris LLP.
By Randy D. Gordon
7 minute read
October 20, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Rites of Law: Performance in PracticeBoth legal and ritualistic procedures stand in rough structural equivalence vis-à-vis the hierarchy of basic social redressive mechanisms.
By Randy D. Gordon
5 minute read
September 27, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Icons and Arrangements: How Courtrooms Talk About ThemselvesIf a courthouse announces itself in a certain public way, its interior does so much more privately, writes Randy D. Gordon.
By Randy D. Gordon
6 minute read
August 23, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Immigration and the American West: The Myth of the GardenNow, on the cusp of global migration spurred by social unrest, economic uncertainty, and—we increasingly hear—climate change, we must hope, as Walt Whitman imagined in "Passage to India," for human—not national—solutions.
By Randy D. Gordon
6 minute read
July 13, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Saying Things Without Words: The Meaning of Legal SpacesTraditional courthouse design is somewhat at odds with current notions of transparency, justice-as-fairness and inclusion.
By Randy D. Gordon
6 minute read
May 12, 2020 | Texas Lawyer
Pandemic History and the Generation of LawIn a famous 1975 lecture before the Collège de France, the philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault proposed that the plague of the mid-1300s…
By Randy D. Gordon
6 minute read
April 09, 2020 | Corporate Counsel
Of Lions and Lambs in the Time of CoronavirusIn the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, are fostering something of a Peaceable Commercial Kingdom and loosening some restrictions on competitor collaborations.
By Randy D. Gordon
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