Powerful closing arguments. Intense cross-examinations. Movie-like moments like the one in A Few Good Men. While those are certainly part of our work, they represent only a small fraction of what we do. In reality, 95% of our work is preparing for trial, not...
You don’t go to an optometrist for a heart issue. You don’t go to a neurologist for a broken wrist. While all doctors will have general medical knowledge, they each have a deeper expert knowledge in their own field. It’s all about specialization. At Shaffer &...
Sometimes, lawyers and their clients will not see eye to eye on a case. This leads to us often being contacted by a client who is unhappy with their lawyer. When that happens, we will uniformly reach out to the lawyer to see if we can patch up any differences....
We were dealing with a lawyer who was uniformly dishonest. She would often outright lie to the Court about facts and representations that were never made. One time, we caught her in a lie. We had a hearing scheduled with the Court in Bucks County, and she informed...
While presenting at a Bench Bar CLE about how to introduce evidence, we joked that our method worked every time… except with one unnamed judge. We didn’t realize she was in the audience. She stood up, smiled, and said, “That’s exactly why I didn’t let that exhibit...
