One of the things that you need to be going through your mind is what evidence is there that is going to be susceptible to being destroyed. Either purposefully or through dis laps in time. If yo u hav...
One of the reasons I had to change up my power point a load a bit because they did such a wonderful job yesterday morning, talking about the new discovery laws. So what I wanted to do is to focus on y...
When do you use them? We use them in cases with complex issues or sensitive issues. So, the sexual assault case as I mentioned where you got 1/3 of your panel who is affected by this. A lot of people ...
I would like to save it for the end of Jury selection and the reason why it is because I know I am absolutely entitled to talk about it. So if I am running out of time I want to make sure that is at t...
You’re going to start off by starting the cause question. Ask the specific juror of how they feel and why they feel – and if they don’t – and if they don’t admit to the bias –that’s fine...
As of their past experiences, you’re dead in the water at the beginning which is why a lot of lawyers think that jury selection is where you win or lose a trial. The other thing you can let them kno...
So I want to take few minutes to talk about barratry, Barratry is in person or by phone solicitation of the client. The advertising rules have really confused lawyers about what barratry is but it’s...
So that came out and we got our discovery bill. So what we are wondering if this is going to change the way the prosecutors are handled in the State of Texas. I guess we will wait to see. I want to sh...
I wrote this essay to help others who are going through the processes of the judicial system. I had never been involved with the judicial system before, not even hiring an attorney. I was expecting th...
Now the prosecutors may know that the criminal case is coming, I have clients routinely arrested at the protective order on the criminal charge. So the prosecutors know that they are going to have a c...
A Motion to withdraw indicates that the attorney thinks that his client is going to perjure himself, this is in the press, the weekend before the lawyer is trying to pick the jury in this case. So as ...
The other big issue under conflict of interest is that it says it becomes immediately apparent that the lawyer’s responsibility has adversely effected by the responsibility to another client. Thatâ€...
