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Jerry Spence On the Art of Cross Examination

March 11, 2009

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Gatehouse Media v. The New York Times: Ready for Trial, Counsel?

January 6, 2009

When I discussed the copyright case Gatehouse Media v. The New York Times over the weekend I hadn’t reviewed the court docket, and hadn’t been aware that Judge William Young had pulled the trick that he is famous for (at least locally): when a party requests a preliminary injunction, he responds by ordering an expedited

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Famous Trials

January 5, 2009

Trials. We love them, we hate them. If you’re a client, you really hate them.  Or, at least you should. There are moments of high drama, but the vast majority of trials are as boring as watching grass grow. Even trials that attract the prurient interests of the public (think OJ or Spector), that force

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Study: If You Go to Trial, Odds Are You're Making a Mistake

August 7, 2008

Litigation takes the place of sex in middle age. Gore Vidal I wrote in some detail almost two years ago about how trials can be very bad for clients. In the linked article I wrote: Sadly, too many lawyers (you hear their ads on the radio and see them in the legal journals – “courtroom

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