Being a bankruptcy litigator is often what it must be like to be a member of the Geek Squad. Emergency calls from non-bankruptcy attorneys whose case has been short circuited by the infiltration of the “B” word somehow into the litigation are frequent. They don’t want to understand why or how such a virus [...]
Filed under: The Litigator's Toolshed by Camille Iurillo Friday, October 1st, 2010
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There are probably as many different ways to prepare a trial notebook as there are ways to research case law. The hardest part of preparing the Trial Notebook is incorporating the Order of Proof (or How to Tell Your Story) in a cohesive manner. One of the easiest and most effective ways to approach this [...]
Filed under: The Litigator's Toolshed by Priscilla Horn Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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This may seem like a simple enough task — you’re in state court and both sides want to push the trial back a couple of months so that a key witness can be available to testify. You file a joint motion to continue. How can this possibly go wrong? You may want to pay close [...]
Filed under: The Litigator's Toolshed by Kevin Johnson Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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Whether you are only an occasional litigator or you spend every day in the trenches, we hope you will find useful tips and information in this section of the blog. We’re calling it the Toolshed because it is designed to let you look over the tools that you can use in your litigation practice and [...]
Filed under: The Litigator's Toolshed by Kevin Johnson Monday, July 12th, 2010
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