May 24, 2013
How (not) to handle exhibits
If you want to know how to irritate the clerk, frustrate the judge, baffle opposing counsel, muddy the record, delay the process, and exasperate your client, read on. By Kathleen M. White and Daniel P. Maguire
There comes a moment in every trial or hearing when it is revealed to the judge whether the lawyer is a skilled trial professional or a bumbling tyro. That moment is not in the pretrial motions, the trial brief or the opening statements. It doesn't matter whether the trial is criminal or civil. That moment in all trials is the presentation of the first document as an exhibit. If you already know how to mark, organize...
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