Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 24, 2022
"When people get involved in a good story, attention spans lengthen," says Ohio trial lawyer Jim Casey. "Story defeats bias. It defeats resistance and it crosses generations."
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 20, 2022
Sara Williams of Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys says she became a better trial attorney after getting over the idea she needed to be Atticus Finch.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 19, 2022
Minneapolis District Judge Peter Cahill, who oversaw the murder trial of the police officer who killed George Floyd, says its good to recognize the things that are within your control and those that are not when you're faced with the stress inherent in a high-profile trial.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 13, 2022
"What our practice is all driving towards is trial and that moment where you stand up and you have somebody decide are you going to win or are you going to lose," Hacker said. "Mocks are the first opportunity to get that feedback about your case—and a pretty close corollary to trial."
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 11, 2022
That lawyer who is cross-examining you might as well be a robot, says Boies. "It's going to have every aspect of a human being except you can't persuade them, you can't intimidate them, you can't control them, you can't change their mind."
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | October 4, 2022
"They're getting all of this with a fresh mind," says the Houston-based trial consultant of jurors. "You have to educate them and convince them—all with the chess clock running and the other side standing up and saying the exact opposite of what you're saying."
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 29, 2022
Asking the whole panel of potential jurors scaled questions about issues that actually apply to a case can yield a dataset to drive peremptory challenges.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 21, 2022
Even Phillips—who in nearly four decades at Sidley Austin has more U.S. Supreme Court arguments in private practice than anybody—felt like he was frozen to his seat during his first argument at the High Court.
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 20, 2022
The co-chair of the commercial litigation group at Debevoise & Plimpton has a message for defendants facing a certified class: "Don't take counsel of despair."
Litigation Daily | Best Practices
By Ross Todd | September 15, 2022
Charla Aldous of Aldous \ Walker in Dallas and Steven Quattlebaum of Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull in Little Rock, Arkansas, walk through their respective approaches to preparing closing arguments.
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