During his representation of the plaintiff in Glen Graves v. Jerry L. Starkey, et al., Ross Sears knew he faced some sticky issues: The complex breach-of-contract suit centered on three confusing agreements with subtle differences, he says.
Then there was the length of the trial. Sears, a partner in Houston’s Sears * Crawford, says he told jurors the trial would last two weeks. He says he tried to expedite matters by not calling all his witnesses and limiting his objections. But the trial lasted for six weeks. And once the case went to the jury, the charge it had to wade through was 48 pages long.
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