Written by a pair of attorneys whose current practice involves training expert witnesses for deposition and trial, this aptly titled book presents strategies for maximizing an expert witness’s potential at deposition. The book also covers numerous tactics, trick questions, and difficult questions employed by lawyers taking expert depositions, so it serves a dual purpose of […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
This is the book—the best one I’ve run across—that you give to your niece, your younger cousin, or the college kid down the street when he or she asks whether law school is a good idea. In it, U.S. District Judge Frederic Block creates a funny and often-endearing portrait of the practice of law, and […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The American Bar Association (ABA) reported recently that law is the second-most sleep-deprived profession—second not to doctors, but to home health-care professionals. The ABA reported that home health aides sleep an average of six hours and fifty-seven minutes per night; lawyers sleep an average of seven hours—to which the popular legal blog Above the Law […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
In The Lawyer’s Guide to Records Management and Retention, authors George Cunningham and John Montaña provide a clear and comprehensive guide to the creation and maintenance of an effective and efficient records management and retention program. They emphasize that although information is paramount to lawyers, a rare few practitioners properly manage this critical resource. The […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Lawyers have been quick to embrace the iPad and its various applications (known as apps) for use in the workplace. This is not surprising, given that legal work generally is very document-intensive and the iPad decreases the number of physical documents the lawyer must carry around. The iPad also enables lawyers to search through documents […]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
