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Club Ah v. Club Blah.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). An essential focus at the Trial Lawyers College is to replace verbal legalese droning at trial with painting word images, telling persuasive stories by re-enacting events, and talking from the first-person perspective of non-lawyers involved in the drama.  Last week, I went to a nearby courthouse remembering last week's advice to me from local t'ai chi teacher Warren Connor, which was to focus all the more on my centering now that I know the t'ai chi principles. My client was wrongly accused of assaulting a man in a bar, with my client's fists and a knife, causing superficial wounds. I knew we had a good chance of winning, but also knew that if we lost, the knife part of the attack probably would have enhanced the sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).