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The Most Common Mistake Judge Alsup Sees At Trial and How to Fix It

Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup dug into what he calls "negative-positive ambiguity" during a presentation on common trial mistakes last week at the San Francisco federal courthouse.
5 minute read

Law.com

Using Feedback To Improve Team Performance

The problem with giving feedback is that it often comes across as criticism. Human beings tend to react defensively, resulting in a denial of the feedback or worse, entrenchment in the behavior or attitude that may be derailing them in the first place. How can we give feedback in a way that minimizes defensiveness?
6 minute read

Law.com

Meeting Client Expectations to Provide Good 'Customer Service'

Buyers of legal services are now a highly sophisticated and connected community. What the clients now not only want but insist on, is operational efficiency, effectiveness and transparency.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

3 Types of Difficult Witnesses and How to Deal With Them on Cross

Angela Brooks and Kate Sandlin, criminal defense lawyers in Los Angeles and Atlanta respectively, walk through some strategies for handling the cross-examination of less-than-cooperative witnesses.
5 minute read

Law.com

Defending Class Action Certification In Data Breach Litigation

The most common questions and key elements of a negligence claim are whether the defendant breached a duty of care, whether there is any injury as a result of the defendant's breach of any purported duty of care, and whether the defendant's alleged breach caused the plaintiff any damages. While these essential questions and elements apply with equal force in data breach litigation, the difficult question to answer in these cases is "what is the value, if any, of your injury or damages?"
11 minute read

Law.com

Two Techniques That Up Your Team Management Skills In 2023

Good team leaders create an environment in which attorneys and staff work hard, are loyal, and add to profitability. Setting expectations and goals is an essential step in becoming an effective team leader. Make a commitment this year to up your management skills with these two key techniques.
6 minute read

Law.com

Development Issues for Tenants to Consider In Build to Suit Leases

There are several issues and terms to consider related to the development process that differentiate build to suit leases from a standard commercial lease that are important for the tenant to understand to effectively manage costs and effectively protect itself from delays in the development schedule.
9 minute read

Law.com

An Innovator's Approach to Hybrid: Empathy and Iteration

This is a time of innovation, and one way law firms can prepare for a future we can't yet see is through leveraging two key levers: the need for empathy and iteration.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

This Gibson Dunn Team Shows You Can Get Associates Reps While Winning

"You have to be in the cage swinging, getting pitches. You don't get better if you're not," says partner Collin Cox who led a team of three associates to a $15 million trial victory in Dallas federal court.
5 minute read

Law.com

Meeting Client Expectations

The New Reality, for which law firms are scrambling to equip themselves, is that law firms no longer define their own service levels. Now it's the clients, and they have clear expectation parameters.
5 minute read

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