Randy D. Gordon

December 13, 2021 | Texas Lawyer

True, law can have immediate and enormous consequences when the power of the state is brought to bear on individuals, but the stories that result from law carry emotional weight sufficient to bend law one way or the other over time. In this way, law is both an instrument and informer of culture.

By Randy D. Gordon

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September 27, 2021 | Texas Lawyer

'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

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June 29, 2021 | Texas Lawyer

There is general agreement that witness preparation serves three ends: educating witnesses, educating lawyers, and enhancing testimony delivery.

By Randy D. Gordon

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May 11, 2021 | Texas Lawyer

Manipulation 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

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March 21, 2021 | Texas Lawyer

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

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October 20, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

Both legal and ritualistic procedures stand in rough structural equivalence vis-à-vis the hierarchy of basic social redressive mechanisms.

By Randy D. Gordon

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September 27, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

If a courthouse announces itself in a certain public way, its interior does so much more privately, writes Randy D. Gordon.

By Randy D. Gordon

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August 23, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

Now, 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

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July 13, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

Traditional courthouse design is somewhat at odds with current notions of transparency, justice-as-fairness and inclusion.

By Randy D. Gordon

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May 12, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

In 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

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