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Corporate Counsel

What Is a Litigation Story? Advice for GCs Preparing Their Company's Litigation Strategy

If after two months into a new case outside counsel is unable to clearly articulate a thoughtful, unique, and convincing litigation story about the case, you should find a new attorney. Successful trial lawyers are master storytellers.
19 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Federal Appellate Oral Arguments: Getting — and Maximizing — an Invitation to Speak

It's no surprise that in this technological age where most legal work is done behind a computer screen, fewer than one-third of fully briefed cases receive an invitation to present argument in person.
13 minute read

The Recorder

How to Get Out of a Job Rut

Being in a job for “a long time” is kind of like sitting in your favorite easy chair. It's comfortable. It's familiar. It's ... easy.…
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Settlement Series: Part 6

What to do when a third party unofficially controls your client's decisions.
18 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Settlement Series: Part 5

Don't damage the mutual courtesy and good will that is so important to potentially reaching a settlement, by heaping upon the opposing party an overbearingly voluminous pile of materials right before the conference.
16 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Diversity Issues and Their Effect on the Trial Lawyer

An essay by Norberto A. Garcia, a certified civil trial attorney and partner at Javerbaum Wurgaft in Jersey City.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Broward Lawyer's Hard-Fought $3.6 Million Settlement Comes With a Tinge of Sadness

Fresh off a multimillion-dollar victory described as one of the largest settlements in the School District of Palm Beach County's history, attorney…
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Appealing an Arbitration Award—to Court or to an Arbitral Tribunal?

Nothing is easy or expeditious when it comes to the arbitration agreements that Bob drafts. He spends lots of time and lots of his clients' money to incorporate all kinds of so-called protective provisions. “This way,” he tells clients, “I get the best and avoid the worst of arbitration.”
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Failure to Disclose and Constructive Trust in Divorce

For many family law practitioners, 23 Pa.C.S. Section 3505(d) is a safety blanket protecting their clients in situations where a party fails to disclose information regarding an asset or assets with a fair market value of $1,000.00 or more which results in that asset or assets being omitted from the final distribution of property in a divorce matter.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Settlement Series: Part 2

Successful settlements arise most easily when all parties treat each other cordially and respectfully -- advise your client what to expect.
8 minute read

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