You walk into a martial arts training studio (in Japanese styles, a dojo) and you scan the room. Everything going on here looks, well, unpleasant. In one corner, you observe a group of students ...

A witness’s presence on the stand under oath does not guarantee the admissibility of the witness’s prior out-of-court statements. While considerable debate on this issue persists, practitioners should ...

Youth in foster care can access mental health support through outpatient therapy, intensive home-based services, residential treatment programs, and medication management; each type offers varying ...

Parents with disabilities face increased scrutiny and are disproportionately involved in child welfare cases, often due to stereotypes and assumptions about their abilities rather than evidence of ...

The table of contents offers a special opportunity to give the judge an overview of the dispute It does so at precisely the point in the brief—the first page—at which an overview offers its greatest ...

The Court gave the president a broad license in a wide zone of activity to commit crimes. The Supreme Court’s power is awesome and, in this case, chilling. Our responsibility, as litigators, is to be ...

It is vital for lawyers to resist any impulse to turn down or reluctance to accept difficult cases. Among the various challenges of tough cases is telling your client things the client does not want ...

On October 12, 2024, the Bar Council of Maldives (BCM) successfully administered the third bar exam, which is one of the two essential requirements to become licensed to practice as a lawyer in the ...

Like computer-assisted legal research and document review, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest in a long line of tools with the potential to make lawyers more efficient and more ...

There are many lawyers vying for the same clients. Marriages don’t always last, and client relationships are even more fragile. Good client care is about relationships as well as the work. Clients ...

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What are you trying to accomplish? And with whom? Trying to impress an audience with your verbal skill is not the same as trying to persuade a court to free your client. Everything depends on context ...