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Not Much News, but Much Blinking

By Scoplaw

It's been a long hard week of nothing much at all.  Most of the week's energy was spent being a backup on a colleague's trial involving a former client of mine.   But not really.  It's kind of complicated to explain, but I'll start with our practice of backing each other up in trial.  First off, I have to say it's a simply awesome lift to your spirits when you're working hard right before a trial and 4 other APDs float in to say, "Hey, any last minute issues I can pull case-law on?  Can I get you guys some food?  Anything I can do to help?"  It's clearly the right way to practice in our relatively small division, and it's something (in my opinion) we as a group are especially good at.  I think it's made a huge difference in some trials - having an instant research team to run right out and get something...continue to full post

Full post as published by Scoplaw on April 12, 2008 (boomark / email).