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Top Gun: Interview with Anita Ventrelli

The Successful Lawyer

Motion Practice While there are many programs teaching trial advocacy, there is an absence of training programs for family lawyers doing motion practice. Anita explained her methods of preparing and arguing a motion. Motion practice should be conversational. Good advice. This is unfortunate.

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New Pathways to Lawyer Licensure: Part II

WA Bar News

Under the ABA’s law school accreditation standards, law schools are required to offer practical skills courses and students are required to complete at least six skills credits to graduate.

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Litigators with a Data Fetish: Moneyballing Testimony

The Cloud Court Blog

We see whether attorneys regularly and strategically talk over a witness mid-sentence to garble testimony they don’t like, trying to deprive the opposing party of a clean quote to use in motion practice or at trial. They can cement into the record an answer they can use as a fulcrum to move the case: in motion practice (e.g.,