Midway through a four-week trial involving a breach-of-contract dispute, a juror sent a note to the judge, asking, "Can you tell us how many more people will take the stand?" A Houston lawyer representing one of the parties took the hint. He shaved almost two days off the eight days he initially had planned to present, and it paid off with a $10.38 million judgment.
June 25, 2012 at 12:00 AM
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Midway through a four-week trial involving a breach-of-contract dispute, a juror sent a note to the judge, asking, “Can you tell us how many more people will take the stand?”
Houston lawyer Gregory Cokinos, a partner in Cokinos, Bosien & Young, took the hint: “I saw the jury was ready to make a decision. I shortened my case up a lot,” he says.
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