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[FIRM NOTES]

What a motion in limine is really for

Much of a trial is decided before opening statements, in the rulings about what a jury will never hear. A note from our trial group on building that record early — and on why we would rather argue a point twice than discover it on the morning of.

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TRIAL COUNSEL, PLAINTIFF AND DEFENSE

Practice, made precise.

Eight areas, and the same working method in each: read the documents before forming a theory, decide what the case is actually about, and plead it that way from the first filing.

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[VALUES + CAREERS]

Built to try the case.

We built the firm around the part of the work that cannot be handed off — standing up and making the argument. Associates take depositions in their first year, everyone on a case reads the whole record, and the people who write the brief are the people who argue it. Career development here means being given the hearing rather than the memorandum about it.

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