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Litigation The Recorder: Preparing Your Witness

An article by Mark Adams titled "Preparing Your Witness" on how to prepare an expert witness for testimony, was published in The Recorder’s special report on Litigation. This article was also featured in Law Technology News.

Litigation Orange County Lawyer: The Science and Art of Advocacy

An article by Mark Adams on jury selection, "The Science and Art of Advocacy," was published as a special feature in the April 2011 edition of Orange County Lawyer. In the article, Mark details successful strategies for choosing members of a jury and discusses why jury selection is an important part of trying a case […]

Litigation Size Them Up: Picking – or Rather, “Excluding” – a Jury

Orange County Litigation Newsletter, Fall 2010 Size Them Up: Picking – or Rather, “Excluding” – a Jury Clarence Darrow, one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians, wrote in “How to Pick A Jury,” Esquire, May 1936: “It is obvious that if a litigant discovered one of his dearest friends in the jury […]

Litigation Pause Before Sending: Using Unenforceable Non-Competes can be Very Costly

Pause Before Sending: Using Unenforceable Non-Competes can be Very Costly Had STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA) (“STAAR”) obtained sound legal advice before it sent three letters to its competitors, STAAR might have saved itself $11.4 million. In separate, two-month long jury trials, our trial team including myself, Eudeen Chang and Monica Vu of Jeffer Mangels, […]

Litigation Served Today, Trial Tomorrow

Served Today, Trial Tomorrow You could be in trial tomorrow on a case that was filed last week. This has been a surprising reality for clients – and lawyers. A special provision in the California Corporations Code Section 709, requires a trial to begin within five days once an action to determine the validity of […]