I was going to title this section "Introduction", but I checked myself before putting pen to paper. (Yes, I am from the generation of...

“What are you up to?” “Prepping for trial on that hot tub burn case.” “What’s this?”, he asked, rifling through the pages of a deposition...

There are layers of courts in our country, like layers of a cake. We have done this to spread out the love, or to handle all the...

Every profession has its language. Every job has nicknames, short names, abbreviations, project titles, code names, - language that uses...

I can say quite comfortably that there are rules that govern everything that happens in court. Every jurisdiction calls them by...

I have been in a lot of courthouses in my time. Some are quite beautiful. The Federal Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts reminds me of...

If you are like most lawyers, you probably jump around the Table of Contents of any book so you can get to the interesting part, or the...

Learning some schmuck has filed a civil case against you is gut-wrenching. You imagine the worst. First, you didn’t do anything wrong. ...

There is a whole world of practice called “Motions Practice”. It is mostly abused. Attorneys tend to over-litigate everything. The...

I bet you have just been dying to get to this section! Nah. You are probably bored out of your skull by now. But, we must perservere...

I am going to treat this chapter solely under Massachusetts state law and procedure. Trust me though when I tell ya the saga of the...

Why choose mediation or arbitration (dispute resolution) over trial? Firstly, imagine a trial as the express lane on the highway during...

Lawyers often comment that if they didn’t have a client, they could win every case. Of course, if we didn’t have a client we would not...

I bet you are wondering why I titled the last chapter as a “Final Comment”. The simplest explanation is that I thought of more to say,...