Legal Writing Launch

OCTOBER 4, 2024

We will address: The Importance of Legal Writing in the Legal Profession Understanding the Types of Legal Writing Key Objectives and Functions of Writing Essential Legal Writing Skills and Techniques Strategies for Effective and Persuasive Legal Writing Legal writing stands as the cornerstone of the legal profession.

Objections

Jonathan Leach LLC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Participants of mock trials in El Paso will learn how to construct compelling arguments, effectively present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses. Mock trials teach aspirants how to address the judge and opposing counsel and introduce evidence. It can make all the difference in the success of your case.

Cross-Examination

Complex Discovery

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article provides a concise examination of key developments in the Russo-Ukrainian War over December 20-21, 2024, with a special focus on Ukraines groundbreaking use of robotic systems in combat and its implications for modern battlefield dynamics.

Government and Public Sector

Legal Writing Launch

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This section should be objective, presenting the facts in a clear, organized manner to provide a solid foundation for the legal analysis. This should be a detailed and logical examination of how the law applies to the given facts. Statement of Facts The statement of facts provides the relevant facts pertinent to the legal issue.

Legal Research

Jury Analyst

JULY 17, 2023

We discussed how bias can lead to biased evaluations of evidence and witness testimony and the tendency to favor information that aligns with pre-existing beliefs during jury deliberations. The scientific approach to jury selection implements safeguards against human bias and uses objective methods.

Jury Selection

Jury Analyst

JULY 17, 2023

We discussed how bias can lead to biased evaluations of evidence and witness testimony, as well as the tendency to favor information that aligns with preexisting beliefs during jury deliberations. The scientific approach to jury selection implements safeguards against human bias and uses objective methods.

Jury Selection

Jury Analyst

JULY 17, 2023

We discussed how bias can lead to biased evaluations of evidence and witness testimony, as well as the tendency to favor information that aligns with preexisting beliefs during jury deliberations. The scientific approach to jury selection implements safeguards against human bias and uses objective methods.

Jury Selection

Jury Analyst

AUGUST 7, 2024

In order for the legal process to successfully uphold the ideal of a defendants right to a fair trial, jurors must evaluate the evidence that informs the verdict in a fair and impartial manner. These pre-existing beliefs can color their perception and evaluation of the evidence.

Jury Selection

Jury Analyst

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

These insights can optimize the representativeness of a jury pool, ensuring it reflects a cross-section of the community. They maintain the integrity of the jury system and assure defendants and plaintiffs that an objective body serves justice. Jury pool size plays a pivotal role in fulfilling the objective of representativeness.

Voir Dire

Jury Analyst

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

These insights can optimize the representativeness of a jury pool, ensuring it reflects a cross-section of the community. They maintain the integrity of the jury system and assure defendants and plaintiffs that an objective body serves justice. Jury pool size plays a pivotal role in fulfilling the objective of representativeness.

Voir Dire

Jury Analyst

MARCH 7, 2025

Creating a Social Media Score To systematically evaluate potential jurors, you can create a social media score by focusing on these three areas: Attitude Assessment : Examine biases toward specific industries, views on civil litigation and damages, attitudes toward corporate defendants, and any past jury service experiences.

Voir Dire

Jury Analyst

MARCH 7, 2025

Creating a Social Media Score To systematically evaluate potential jurors, you can create a social media score by focusing on these three areas: Attitude Assessment : Examine biases toward specific industries, views on civil litigation and damages, attitudes toward corporate defendants, and any past jury service experiences.

Voir Dire

Evidence at Trial

MARCH 30, 2023

Lee Bailey—polite and charismatic with a sprinkling of zinger cross-exam questions that would hit bullseye every time. But in this he-said-she-said ski collision case, where the jury must accept one party’s version of events and reject the other, the skill of the examiner is important. The victim? Paltrow, good morning.

Cross-Examination

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

And so the the evidence of the uptake, the fact of the uptake rather, is evidence that there’s curiosity and interest and that lawyers are wanting to put their money where their mouth is, when it comes to being forward looking. And then now it just actually expands the number of things that I could object to.

Legal Research

E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The Court set out the standard formula for spoliation – – there must be a duty to preserve, breach with a culpable state of mind, and prejudice, i.e., loss of “relevant” evidence that would have supported the claims or defenses of the discovering party. at *2; see Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(e)(for ESI).

Burden Of Proof

Evidence at Trial

MARCH 22, 2023

One its expert witnesses walked the jury through powerful demonstrative evidence detailing DNA contamination in its crime lab. Must-Know Rule #2: A Substitute for Evidence Cannot Bypass Relevance Like any rule of evidence, the details mustn't swallow the whole. Harrison , 651 F.2d 2d 353, 355 (5th Cir. 1981); Gravert v.

Evidence

Complex Discovery

JANUARY 19, 2025

Expertise in navigating regulatory frameworks, managing cross-border data challenges, and tailoring workflows to client needs positions service providers as indispensable partners in the eDiscovery process. GDPR, CCPA) and cross-border data transfer requirements. Legal and corporate teams must also adapt to these changes.

Government and Public Sector

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

MAY 6, 2024

Anne artfully cross-examined the plaintiff’s own expert witnesses to support the client’s defense and cast doubt on the actions of others. “We The trial victory protected our client and her insurance company from nearly $2 million in claimed damages.

Education

E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 5, 2024

While there were many issues on appeal, one was whether evidence of her internet searches related to termination of a pregnancy was properly admitted on the facts presented. The decision to admit that evidence was affirmed by the intermediate appellate court. Examination showed otherwise and she reported that the baby was stillborn.

Admissibility

WA Bar News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Unfortunately, litigators who do not fit the stereotypical idea of what an oral advocate should look like must fight harder to establish credibility because, as legal scholar and Columbia Law School Professor Kimberl Crenshaw writes, what is understood as objective or neutral is often the embodiment of a white middle-class world view.

Litigation

WA Bar News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

c) addresses the uncomfortable situation when a lawyer has offered material evidence and comes to know of its falsity[.] puts it this way: [A]lthough a lawyer should resolve doubts about the veracity of testimony or other evidence in favor of the client, the lawyer cannot ignore an obvious falsehood. What do you do? In State v.

Depositions

Complex Discovery

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

It examines Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertions at the Valdai Club and how they frame Russia’s expectations for future U.S.-Russia This stance reinforces the Kremlin’s non-negotiable approach regarding its objectives in Ukraine and its broader global aspirations.

Government and Public Sector