Originally published in The Champion, November, 2011 Basics of a Client Interview A lawyer can meet a client in many ways, including a referral by court appointment or in the waiting room of the lawyer’s office. For purposes of this…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Attorney-Client Interview: Practice Points – Part 1 of 3
Tagged with: Attornery-Client Relationship, Attorney-Client Interview, Client Communication, Criminal Law, Practice of Law
Posted in The Client
Posted in The Client
Attorney-Client Interview: Innocence, Jail and Canines – Part 3
Originally published in The Champion, November, 2011 Do You Believe That I’m Innocent? On occasion, some clients desperately insist that their lawyer must believe they are innocent. A tempered response goes something like this: Your innocence is not the standard.…
Tagged with: Attornery-Client Relationship, Attorney-Client Interview, Criminal Law, Innocenct, Practice of Law
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Attorney-Client Interview – Practice Points Part 2
Originally published in the Champion, November, 2011 The Client Has Been Accused of What Crime? It is essential to know what happened both from the client’s perspective and from the government’s point of view. Before the attorney starts, she should…
ABA Blawg 100
From the Sidebar has been selected to the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100, the 5th annual list of the best in blogs about lawyers and the law. Thanks for all your support, comments and advice all of you have provided to the…
Accused of Bias, Judge Recuses Himself from 17 Ongoing Cases
By Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Michael P. Zabel Can joint representation with independent counsel remedy a conflict of interest? In a recent criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, a federal judge denied…
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Child Abuse Reporting Laws – Penn State Scandal
By: Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint An omission, or failure to act, is a crime only where the law imposes an affirmative duty to act. Historically, the law has been reluctant to impose such duties. Yet in some instances, the law does…
Tagged with: Child Abuse Reporting Law, Cleary Act, Criminal Law, Duty to Report Child Abuse, Omissions, Penn State Scandal
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Posted in Prosecution & Defense
Juror Misconduct & Criminal Contempt. In California, Tweet and Go to Jail
In an effort to deal with the ever increasing misuse of social media at trial, the California Legislature amended the criminal contempt definition to include juror misconduct as outlined below. CA Assembly Bill 141. Signed into law by Gov. Brown…
How Jurors Decide — Witness Credibility
By Benjamin E. Zuckerman How do jurors reach their verdicts? It’s simple: they vote for the party whose witnesses they like best. Early in my career, I handled a criminal defense matter. The client had been charged with burglarizing a…
Posted in Trial
Effective Video Depositions — The Director’s Chair
By Benjamin E. Zuckerman of Cozen O’Connor Nothing is more boring than watching a witness testify on videotape. Especially after lunch. Jurors who don’t nod off should be given prizes. We live in an age of hyper-active movies, videos and…
Corporate Search Warrant Protocol: Email to Employees
After publishing “Search Warrant Protocol – What Every Company Should Do to Prepare”, I received a number of requests for a sample notice-of-warrant email from a company to its employees. Here you go: Our offices are being searched by law…
Tagged with: Company Protocols, Corporate Law, Email to Employees, Employee Interviews with Government, Rights of Company, Search Warrant
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Posted in Corporate Compliance
