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"You are truly an evil legal genius."

By Scoplaw

Or so claims a more Sr. attorney following an MJOA win on our latest trial case.  This one was kind of interesting.  It featured a witness disclosed just before trial, a mid voir dire deposition, a most completely boneheaded sidebar objection by yours-truly, and a smorgasbord of strategy options.  Some of this has to stay under wraps of course, but basically the Mentally Stable Trial Partner (MSTP) and I put in a couple of 14 hour days.  We had to attend to our usual overwheming caseload, then process a lot of last minute info on the fly.  At the close of the first day of testimony, we still had three distinct but mutually exclusive legal strategies intact.  Basically, whatever evidenciary path we traveled would exclude certain arguments...continue to full post

Full post as published by Scoplaw on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).