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Listen for Good Attorneys in Court Tip #80

Spend the first hour in the court room hallway, second and third hours in the actual court room, and finally an hour by the attorney/client conference meeting area.
1) Start in the morning with the hallway outside the court room. You will witness clients and attorneys looking for each other. Watch carefully the interactions attorneys have with their clients, other attorneys and maybe even judges. Do they seem cordial to their clients? Are they talking and meeting with other attorneys? Do they seem well known and comfortable in this courthouse? Are they discussing and directing clients and witnesses? Do other people seem to know the attorney?

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Showtime Begins & Ends in Court from Your Car Tip #308

Judges, opposing counsels, witnesses, are parking cars next to yours, walking in behind you and either getting the doors held for them by you—or else closed in their faces. During my trial, I saw dads and other people going to court who were losing their cool in the parking garage—cussing, cutting up, saying negative things about their spouses—while judges and jury members were still watching them. Folks, your trial is not going on inside a vacuum. It is therefore up to you to keep your act clean both in and out of the courtroom.

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