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 […]
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“If Matthew Butterick didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” So begins Bryan A. Garner’s foreword to Butterick’s Typography for Lawyers. I can’t say I disagree with Garner (although I rarely do). Typography for Lawyers provides a new and necessary perspective on legal writing. Those fond of Garner’s work will likely find much […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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