A litigator’s reputation is built long before a judge delivers reasons or a client recommends the firm. It develops through hundreds of small decisions:…
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Building A Reputation As A Trustworthy Litigator
The Art Of Closing Argument: Sealing The Verdict
A closing argument is the advocate’s last opportunity to turn a contested record into a persuasive decision. By that stage, the jury or judge has heard the…
Lessons From Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court For State-Law Advocacy
Pennsylvania offers a particularly useful study in how state courts develop legal rules within a federal system. Its Supreme Court regularly addresses the…
Where Faith, Public Power, and Free Expression Meet
Law and religion meet wherever public authority regulates belief, conscience, worship, speech, education, employment, or access to services. The First…
A practical guide to avoiding legal malpractice
Legal malpractice rarely begins with a dramatic courtroom error. More often, it develops through a chain of small failures: an unclear retainer, an…
Why the Best Trial Lawyers Are Also Historians
A courtroom dispute rarely begins when a witness takes the stand. Long before that moment, people have formed institutions, habits, loyalties, fears, and…
The Magna Carta’s Legal Significance in America
The Magna Carta occupies a distinctive place in American legal culture. It was drafted in medieval England to settle a political crisis between King John and…
How to Manage the Emotional Toll of Litigation
Litigation is often described through legal strategy, evidence, procedure and cost. Those matters are essential, yet they do not capture what a dispute does to…
Reading history in Supreme Court decisions
When the United States Supreme Court decides a case, historical material often sits close to the legal reasoning. The justices may examine the condition of the…
When a transfer is designed to defeat a bank
Banking litigation and the problem of fraudulent conveyances often begins with a transfer that looks ordinary on paper. A debtor sells a family home, a company…