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Being a t'ai chi bear in an otherwise stressful court.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Yin Yang Nobody can fully and sufficiently describe what it feels like and what the best responses are to being a lawyer being berated by a judge while the lawyer's client is standing right next to the lawyer, and when plenty of other eyes and ears -- and the court reporter's record -- are focused on the action. Even the greatest trial lawyers are not immune from such treatment, although they can be better at preventing (at least where preventing it will not harm the client), deflecting, and diffusing the berating in the first place. Being humans, all judges probably have berated in open court at one, more, many, or too many points, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad ones, and often in between. Essential ingredients for a lawyer to know how to handle such treatment is life experience, constant practice in the heat of battle, and constant self improvement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 21, 2008 (boomark / email).