Category: Legal News

Knowing Your Audience

July 11th, 2019 by Brooksie Bonvillain Boutet

Three Proceedings in Three Months: a Jury Trial, a Bench Trial, and an Arbitration Being an effective advocate is as much about knowing your audience as it is about knowing the law. In a span of three months, I tried a civil jury trial, presented a bench trial, and submitted a case to […]

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