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Cross-Examination about laying pipe (Oy Gevalt!)

By Michael Simkin on March 22, 2017
Posted in Legal Truths (or not)

Here is aa page from an actual trial showing how lawyers make the simplest thing confusing.  Click here: Cross Exam about the pipe

Wal-Mart Depo and the Texas Federal Court’s feelings about the Razorbacks

By Michael Simkin on March 22, 2017
Posted in Legal Truths (or not)

I have a feeling the Judge was not really sympathetic to the Arkansas based Wal-Mart corporate party defendant.  Go Texas Longhorns!!!  Click here for the actual Court Order: Federal Judge Ruling on TexArkana Depositioni

Yiddish and Dueling in the Federal Court from Boston to Oklahoma City

By Michael Simkin on March 22, 2017
Posted in Legal Truths (or not)

I love Federal Court Judges.  Attached are actual court orders including an order striking “dreck”, and an Oklahoma District Court Judge lamenting that to attorneys acted as “schmucks” and the Court stated “This case makes me lament the demise of dueling.”   (Note the Court misspelled the word dueling, but I wouldn’t mention that to the…

Did the lawyer really say that?

By Michael Simkin on March 22, 2017
Posted in Legal Truths (or not)

What comes out of mouths of babes and lawyers sometimes is special!  10 Nasty Lawyer Sayings

Legal Mugging

By Michael Simkin on March 22, 2017
Posted in Legal Truths (or not)

It’s sad but this is common.  Frivolous lawsuits do not help the legal system.  Legal Mugging

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