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I’ve done probably a dozen now. Probably not a big enough sample size, but I haven’t noticed a significant reduction in rates of reaching settlement. Still don’t find them as impactful as in-person though and I think the zoom aspect really takes away from some of the impact an aggressive mediator may provide.
So awesome. You’re doing what I wanted to do when I decided to go to law school. Then as I explored it as a 1L I quickly learned my odds of doing that were about the same as making it as a player.
This is true. Have really enjoyed the switch to telephonic/zoom appearances for non-substantive hearings.
My office is a 10 minute drive to the courthouse. That burns an hour of my day or more just to show up for a status or scheduling conference. By zoom it takes 5-10 minutes and I don't need pants or shoes.
Very interesting. Please keep us updated as things develop. Wishing your son all the best!
Congrats! (Does Duke still do the Mordecai scholarship? He should ask if he hasn't - it was a full ride 7 years ago).
That’s awesome. Congratulations. Sounds like your son has an extremely bright future. Look forward to updates.
You all right if I pass this around my firm? I can see a number of the lawyers in the office enjoying it and donating.
How in the world did you get Pauly Shore and what is he going to do?
Alas, it’s just a very short video intro. And we did it through Cameo. We only have five minutes and had to feature intros from a celebrity and our firm sponsor. Pauly seemed like a good fit!How in the world did you get Pauly Shore and what is he going to do?
Weasel around the stage?
Alice Cooper's restaurant, Cooperstown, is located by the Superior Courthouse downtown. It's a frequent lunch spot for a bunch of attorneys who office in the area (including formerly yours truly like 8-9 years ago). He would occasionally be seen there during lunch. I wonder if that's how they connected.
I imagine this would be a tort claim such as negligence. I would think the proximate cause issue could be problematic. As for rioter versus police officers, the rioters would have to overcome contributory negligence arguments as well. But this is not my area of specialty at all.
His client was sentenced to 9 lives in prison.
Ha that’s actually kinda funny.
I bet the client thought he was hiring a pit bull only to see some #####cat show up.
The guy in the top right appears disinterested until the last few seconds. I don’t think I would have been able to keep it together.
It looked like he was playing on his phone or something and only looked up and saw what was happening at the end. But yeah, I would have been losing it.
To the point @Otismade about travel... late last week i did 2 pretrials in 2 courts an hour apart.. yes, the courts are an hour apart and I did both Pretrials within 30 minutes of one another both by zoom. In the old day this would have been a royal pain and I would have needed a continuance on one of them, or had to find someone to cover one of them etc. Instead, I just did both zia zoom and never left my house.... I hope that courts keep this up even when things get back to normal - at least in early stages of cases and non contested matters.
I haven't been in the office since the middle of March. Honestly, the only reason I see a benefit of being in person is training young lawyers. Being in big law we need to feed the beast with new fodder and honestly I think our first years have lost something being remote the entire time. For someone who has been in their practice area for almost 15 years not sure I am losing anything on a work front.
Same experience for me. It's gotten to the point that I borderline prefer zoom bench trials to in person because, with my client and associate/paralegal in the room with me we can actually more freely communicate with one another during the hearing than we would be able to in court. I've probably done this now for like 25 bench trials and I would be happy to continue doing it this way indefinitely for non-jury trials.
Absolutely. I hope gone are the days of physically waiting in court for some non-contested, mostly procedural hearing. Such a time killer even with the advance of technology and being able to do some work on one's ipad or laptop while waiting.
That is freaking phenomenal! Congrats to your son for all of the great opportunities he has earned. For what it's worth, my brother went to law school at Chicago and I went to law school at NYU and we are both very competitive with each other - so I'm really hoping your kid chooses NYU! As an aside, isn't NYU one of the top law schools for public interest opportunities?The_Man said:
This is the kind of info you're supposed to be telling me
Though I do know that NYU is supposed to be very renowned for public interest.
That's amazing!!! Yale vs Ruby was my hardest choice as well. Always happy to take a call if he wants. Can only imagine what a proud dad you are right now!The_Man said:
Honestly, I’ve found I can pressure and get in the face of a witness just as effectively. I crossed two experts in this trial and thought it went really well. In depositions I likewise felt like I could “lean across the table” effectively event over zoom. It works better than people seem to realize if you know what you’re doing.
