Real quick before I get to more good stuff— This summer between witness prep and live trial consulting our award total has reached over $54 million! Which means we got to update our website with some pretty exciting wins. 🎉 Speaking of websites… We’ve been telling you to look at theirs. The company website. The plaintiff’s website. The expert’s website. They’re often FULL of juicy info that never made it into discovery. And last week, one of our clients showed us he’d been listening. We were...

Hey Reader, A judge recently called us out for using a dirty word in court. Storytelling. Okay, technically, he was talking to the attorney. The attorney had been referring to people by their first names instead of calling them “the plaintiff” or “Mr. So-and-So.” The judge had his opinion as to why… “I understand why you’re using first names. It’s storytelling. But we’re not doing that.” First: It’s just how we’d been referring to them leading up to court. Second: That’s not storytelling. At...

Hey Reader, We’ve gotta tell you about one of our favorite moments that just happened in a depo. A little context… We’d been helping an attorney prepare for a 30(b)(6) corporate witness. As we built the deposition, Steve and I found a few things we definitely wanted marked as exhibits. Cut to the deposition and our attorney pulls one up. Defense counsel: “Just to be clear, this is not a [Company] document.” Plaintiff Attorney: It’s from their website. Another document came out… Defense...