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Ten Days Later…

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I’m in the middle of trial in beautiful downtown Camden, NJ. Before today, I hadn’t updated blogerantz for days. Now I’m sitting in the living room with Lucy and Em; we’re tapping away at our computers and the wintry mix continues to fall on the old air conditioner that sticks out the dining room window, even in the winter. The soundtrack is Neil Young; so a day without sunshine is NOT a day without guitar. If you know where to look, get this record:

Closing arguments will, hopefully be made tomorrow.

Black Mac (book)

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New computer is integrating nicely into my work routine. It’s really cool having everything available all the time – that WAS the point. It’s kind of amazing how Outlook doesn’t export calendar at all and the export for contacts is so difficult that it might as well not be available. And this is from Office (windows) to Office (mac) – all Microsoft products. They just can’t get it right!

But everything is going swimmingly and, except for the import/export issues, I really like Entourage. the rest of Office is pretty much the same (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). The project management is keeping me on my toes.

The latest…

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It occurs to me that every post could have this title…

I haven’t posted the next movie yet. We saw some great Phillies games and Em’s Dad is in town. She’s back on inpatient yesterday and today, so that’s really the focus of activity. She seems to be doing well at the moment, but we’ll see what the weekend holds, as the white count is a bit low.

Other than that, Passover is pretty much here, and Dorothy and her family will be following shortly. That should be interesting. We’ll see how much activity I’m up for, as far as Seders and what not.

Other than that, work has mellowed out a bit, but there’s a civil rights case that needs some TLC after yesterday’s plaintiff deposition. The client did well, but I want to set it up right. Maybe I’ll call my new friend Dr. Goldstein.

Frazier settled

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OK – that’s nice. I’ll get to catch my breath this weekend. In the meantime, the number is not what I would have hoped for, but that’s the nature of compromise. If I’m learning anything, I want a case to be set up just right in order to take it to trial. What do we have for Sherwood? Looks like that’s next.

Trial Madness

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Frazier might be about ready to settle. I know my reluctance is related to the bad outcome from Barsky, but this isn’t the right case on which to take a flyer. This isn’t the right plaintiff. On the other hand, if we have to go, I feel like there is a lot going in our favor. Plus, I’m curious to try a case with Kevin and Litsa – always a lot to learn.

As of now, we’re on for tomorrow. So I’m going to finish my Requested Points For Charge now.

OK – that could have gone better

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Barsky trial was a defense verdict, with no viable option for appeal. Ugh. Client is obviously not happy with outcome, but, as disappointed as I am, I’m still glad for the experience of doing a jury trial in NJ. Now I’m ready for anything.

Which is good, because we’re picking a jury in Frazier tomorrow! That’s Philly, but the stakes are a little higher this time. Let’s put on a good show!

Woah, woah, woah!

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Lots going on – no time to talk! Barsky trial is beginning thrid and final day tomorrow. We’ll see how things go for my first jury trial in NJ.

The new video is up. Here’s the link. I’ll embed it later and Em can send it around via email, planet cancer, etc.

Phils won today – beat the beloved (sic) Mets 5-3 today. Fantastic!

Ferrari pulled out the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday. Kubica choked on his start and let the Ferrari’s gobble him up. Nice to see Massa turn things around after a few problems in the first two races. Of course, neither he nor Kubica are on the fantasy team. Oh well…

Law Blog – Trial Season

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There really is no ‘trial season’ per se, but I’ve got a few going now so it’s a bit hectic. About two weeks ago, I wrapped up a little car case where I got negligence but no causation. We had a binding hi-low, so we were protected, but it was a situation where everyone but the client knew we should have settled. When the verdict came in, we were vindicated, but we missed out on a few of several thousand dollars because we let the client have the final say. Technically, that’s requied, but that doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea.

So, it’s Wednesday and I have a trial on Monday – good onliability but bad on causation. This could be an instant replay of what happened a couple weeks ago. There’s not a lot of pressure (as in the previous case), but I still am aching for a win.

There’s a catch-22 at work here becuase I want to be as thorough as possible, but I also want this to be a bit routine, so I get more comfortable with trial prep. Still working on trying to get that balance

As they say in the song…

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‘Now we’re getting somewhere’

The music page has turned into a zone of experimentation. I’ve kept the header, but chucked the template. I had hoped to steal a template that would work for what I wanted to do (music player and links to categories), but nothing really worked. So, I found a widget (neon sign!) to do my dirty work. Code is poetry, but prewritten code is easy. It’s sort of funny that all the links and text, as well as widgets, all go in the snarfer.php template. It’s not really a template if it has all the content, is it?

I’m sort of fascinated that the Pages don’t lend themselves to blog entries. For example, I will do some law bloggin here and I want to attach a brief I wrote recently on an esoteric technicality in NJ Auto law. I would think there would be a possibility of having a companion or child blog under the main blog. Without having gone on an exhaustive search, it seems that all the blogging needs to be done right here. And then I’ll link to other stuff at a ‘Law’ page, like a pdf of that brief, for example.