Column Archive

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2008 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Admissibility of ESI: It’s Still the Same Old Story
  Sheldon M. Finkelstein and Evelyn R. Storch
• » Evidence Advocacy: The Judge’s Perspective
  Warren D. Wolfson
• » Out of the Darkness
  James A. Readey
• » Convincing a Federal Court of Appeals
  Judge Richard A. Posner
• » The Limits of Privilege in Communications with Experts
  Sidney I. Schenkier
• » The Virtue of Brevity
  Judge John G. Koeltl
• » Ferreting Out the Lying Juror
  Lisa Blue, Robert Hirschhorn, Bob Leone, and Sherry Talton
• » Lean Litigation Practices
  Stewart Weltman

2007 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Deceitful Silence
  Bruce A. Green
• » What to Do When a Judge Makes a Mistake
  Judge James B. Zagel
• » Navigating the New E-Discovery Rules
  Paul D. Weiner and Mary Kay Brown
• » Contingency Litigation 101—for Big Firms
  Stewart Weltman
• » Spoliation
  Sheldon M. Finkelstein, Evelyn R. Storch, and James Simpson
• » Do’s and Don’ts of Talking to the Jury
  Nelly N. Khouzam
• » Representing Lawyers
  Lawrence J. Vilardo and Vincent E. Doyle III
• » Ten Proven Ways to Irritate a Judge
  Judge Michael B. Hyman
• » Ramifications of Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Information
  Joseph S. Simms
• » What Judges Want
  Mark A. Drummond
• » The Curmudgeon on Couth
  Mark Herrmann
• » 12 Tips for Getting the Truth from Adverse Witnesses
  William Alsup

2006 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Here Comes the Pro Se Plaintiff
  Len Niehoff
• » How to Tell a Judge He Screwed Up
  Robert W. Gettleman
• » Lessons Discovered Along the Way
  Jeffrey Cole
• » Bedside Manners for Lawyers
  Peter D. Baird
• » Litigating Damages: Actual and Punitive
  Andrew L. Frey and Dennis P. Orr
• » Section 1927 Sanctions Against Attorneys: A Primer on the Split Among the Circuits
  James F. Holderman
• » Litigation Under the “Cone of Silence”
  Mark D. Colley
• » Better Discovery Through Document Management
  Lisa C. Wood
• » The People You Meet Preparing for Your Deposition
  Charles H. Samel
• » Method Acting for Lawyers
  Kathleen B. Havener
• » Building Juror Trust in Corporate Litigation
  David Berg

2005 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Decisions on the Fly
  Benjamine Reid
• » A Trial Lawyer’s Guide to Surreptitious Audio Evidence
  Todd Mullins and Andrea D. Farinacci
• » Old Dogs and New Tricks for Direct Examination
  Dennis P. Rawlinson
• » A Cautionary Tale of Malpractice in the Computer Age
  Gilbert Greenman
• » Don't Be Objectionable! (Or the Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Object to the Introduction of Evidence in a Jury Trial)
  Paul S. Marks
• » Representing the General Counsel and the Impact of Attorney-Client Privilege
  Reid H. Weingarten and Brian M. Heberlig
• » Read All Over
  Nell B. Strachan
• » What Persuades When the Judge Has Discretion?
  Joan Humphrey Lefkow
• » Framing A Worldview at Trial
  Robert A. Spanner
• » Examining the Sympathetic Witness: Attack at Your Peril
  Frederick P. Alimonti
• » Is the DNA Fingerprint an Infallible Piece of Evidence?
  Edna Selan Epstein
• » No-Citation Rules: An Unconstitutional Prior Restraint
  Charles L. Babcock

2004 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » A Trial Lawyer in Search of a Theme, and Other Musings
  Dennis R. Suplee
• » Client Expectations: Discovering Them, Understanding Them, Managing Them
  Bruce Bikin
• » Using Private Investigators in Civil Cases
  Lee Stapleton Milford
• » "Deselecting" the Jury in a Civil Case
  Robert A. Clifford
• » Jury Instructions: A Roadmap for Trial Counsel
  Sylvia Walbolt and Cristina Alonso
• » Demonstrative Exhibits on a Budget
  Alan B. Parker
• » The Opening Statement: Making an Impact on the Jury
  Linda L. Listrom
• » Admissions and the Confounded Pseudoadmission
  Stephen G. Good
• » Daubert after a Decade
  Robert J. Shaughnessy
• » How to Prevent the Expert from Divulging Counsel's Mental Processes
  Gregory P. Joseph
• » Effective Use of Depositions at Trial
  Jeffrey K. Kroll
• » Settling Cases During Trial – Plaintiff's Perspective
  David C. Wise
• » A Defendant's Perspective on Settling Cases During Trial
  John W. Bell

2003 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Your Client's Employee Is Being Deposed: Are You Ethically Prepared?
  Lawrence M. Fox
• » Jury Instructions: Nine Guiding Principles
  Craig M. Walker
• » Showing Your Hand: A Counter-Intuitive Strategy for Deposition Defense
  Steven Lubet
• » Motions for Judgment on the Pleadings: An Early Exit Strategy
  Jason M. Rosenthal
• » Deposing Corporations and Other Fictive Persons: Some Thoughts on Rule 30(b)(6)
  Sidney I. Schenkier
• » Eight Tips for Better Voir Dire
  John H. Mathias, Jr.
• » Suing Your Own Client: Disqualification? Don't Be So Sure
  Richard J. Magid
• » Reasonable Doubt and Other Shibboleths
  John L. Kane
• » Claiming the Fifth in Civil Litigation
  Richard L. Scheff, Scott A. Coffina and Jill Baisinger
• » Say It Ain't So: Fixing The Mistake Every Litigator Makes
  Paul S. Marks
• » Blowing the Whistle: The ABC's of Qui Tam Litigation
  Robin Page West
• » Sidestepping the Mistrial—What You May Not Say to the Jury
  Timothy J. Conner

2002 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Focusing: When Less is More
  Joyce S. Meyers
• » Getting to Dismissal: Tactics for Narrowing the Issues
  By T. Thomas Cottingham III and Stephen M. Nickelsburg
• » Tips from the Bench: Enhancing Persuasion in Court
  Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn
• » Building the Case
  Michael P. Lynn

2001 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Some Thoughts on Preparing Experts for Trial
  Penny White
• » Focus Groups, Mock Trials and Shadow Juries
  Brad D. Brian and Lonny Rose
• » Electronic Discovery: An Overview
  Joan A. Lukey and Elizabeth A. Rowe
• » Representing the Emotionally Distressed Client
  Thomas Hildner
• » Benefiting from Our Mistakes
  Weyman Lundquist
• » Examining the Sympathetic Witness
  Frederick P. Alimonti

2000 Tips from the Trenches Columns

• » Dealing with the Media
  Dennis P. Rawlinson
• » Lights, Camera, Action: Taking, Defending and Using Video Depositions
  John H. Mathias, Jr., David M. Kroeger and Scott T. Schutte
• » The "I Don't Remember" Witness
  Edward D. Ohlbaum
• » Reheating Old Soup: Taking a Case to Verdict... A Second Time
  Jeffrey J. Kroll
• » Some Lessons from Hollywood for Opening Statements
  Steven O. Rosen
• » How to Get from the War Room to the Court Room: The Basics of Civil Trial Preparation
  Dennis J. Drasco
• » 30(B)(6) Depositions: A Powerful Tool in a Litigator's Arsenal
  Michael A. Stiegel and Laurel A. Haskell