Jury Trial

When I started this blog a couple of years ago, I wrote a series of posts that I called “What Is A Jury Trial?”. You can find the whole series here: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven. Long after writing these posts, I made a video talking about jury trials. You can find that video on our website page  “‘About the Firm” and […]

Truth Out Of Chaos

Now I’ve run out of things to say. There’s obviously no sense talking about this kind of thing … or maybe, there is at that: I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. And I guess that’s one of the real objectives of writing, […]

January 8, 2018

For all judges, sovereign or subordinate, if they refuse to hear proof, refuse to do justice; for though the sentence be just, yet the judges that condemn without hearing the proofs offered are unjust judges and their presumption is but prejudice. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

December 12, 2017

Motion practice is underrated. In particular, my practice is made up of a small number of high value cases that tend to end up before the assigned judges on a relatively regular basis. Issues are often hotly contested  and each hearing is like a small skirmish or battle in a larger fight for control of […]