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By Scoplaw

I think this is mid-week or something.  I've been in trial 3 days running (basically 12+hr days) and tomorrow is a trial day.  We lost the first, which was disappointing on many levels, but there's an appeal there - so we're not quite done.  We won the second, which was, in many ways, more of a stretch going into it all.  Tomorrow - who can say? The week has thusfar featured more than usual courtroom drama, including a couple of contempt charges (client, not me), alleged criminal behavior in the courtroom itself, shouting, finger pointing, and frantic scrambling to manage absurdly large calendars prior to trial.  Out of the craziness came some nice and unsought kudos from judges, prosecutors, and clients.  I think when I have time to digest things, this will go down as a good week - right now there's (always) some major or minor emergency in the fore of my brain that's demanding my attention to the exclusion of reflection...continue to full post

Full post as published by Scoplaw on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).