USA
- May 16 2022
Whenever we step up to evaluate a person as a potential juror, it can be an occupational hazard to simplify that person too much. We do our best with…
USA
- May 12 2022
Witnesses, I’d like to have a word. You know the most important audience for your testimony — the jurors in the courtroom with you, or the future…
USA
- May 9 2022
I recently visited one of the Meow Wolf locations, and my feelings about the immersive art installation tracked with the typical reactions: As vivid…
USA
- May 5 2022
A seasoned trial lawyer stands in front of the jury, previews the critical argument, and then, making knowing eye contact with the jury, adds, “Now…
USA
- May 2 2022
It has been a rough couple of years for science. Our newly-unmasked population seems to be more divided than ever about our ability to rely on…
USA
- April 28 2022
It’s America’s case of the moment: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Hollywood’s former power-couple, now exchanging accusations of physical abuse in a…
USA
- April 21 2022
You have your witness on the stand in direct examination. You have finished laying out the positive story that you want to tell, but you have one…
USA
- April 18 2022
For those trained in the sciences, relying on illustrations or examples is not considered nearly as good as relying on data. If they call something…
USA
- April 14 2022
Experienced trial lawyers know it is important that their witnesses are prepared to testify. At the deposition stage, and even when the likelihood of…
USA
- April 11 2022
Even if the pandemic is finally over, and even if it is the last pandemic we will ever experience — and both of those seem pretty optimistic — it is…