When I was a young lawyer, jurors were not routinely allowed to ask their own questions of witnesses. When the jury instructions and other trial rules were modified to make this a regular feature of trials, most of us came to believe that juror questions were an important and useful change to the way trials […]
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present … fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. Abraham Lincoln (1862), on the imperative of winning the Civil War
Knowledge is in every Country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington (1790), urging the pursuit of science in his first address on the State of the Union.
Rumbustious Part of speech: adjective Origin: British English, late 18th century Boisterous or unruly.
Exhortation An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.
Declivity A downward slope.
Pellucid Translucently clear (of music or noise) clear or pure in tone
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Lawyers need to effectively manage their emotions when things get heated. In transcripts of various depositions examining the plaintiffs’ four experts, then-Kline & Specter attorney Thomas Bosworth “alternated between being rude, demeaning and obnoxious,” U.S. District Judge Stephanie L. Haines said in her Wednesday opinion, highlighting Bosworth’s use of a “higher-pitched, mocking tone to belittle […]
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” William Faulkner
