Word: courtroom
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...courtroom, three team members act as attorneys, and three as witnesses. Trials can run as long as three and a half hours from opening to closing arguments...
Talia Kraemer ’06 said she was exhilarated by her first chance of the year to compete in a real courtroom. “We were in Iowa; we were at nationals; it was the culmination of a year of work,” she said...
...continues its Brown celebration today with a panel discussion in Ames Courtroom titled, “Reflections on the Jurisprudence of Justice Thurgood Marshall: A View from His Law Clerks.” The panel will feature nine HLS faculty members who clerked for Marshall. University President Lawrence H. Summers will deliver opening remarks...
...there was white noise in the courtroom, though, there was a real racket in the jury room. The first day, we instituted a policy of standing before speaking, because we were talking over one another. The stand-and-speak policy was only partly effective. Yet, slowly and surely, we did make progress by focusing especially on the bonuses and on a $20 million payment that the defendants made to a fellow director (Frank Walsh) without informing the rest of the board for six months...
...hung on some of them. Jordan, who had unconscionably been outed by name by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, had received a threatening letter. The judge declared a mistrial. It was particularly frustrating that the mistrial was caused, in the end, by events outside the courtroom. Lord knows we had enough problems inside the jury room. We had come together, however uneasily, only to have the marathon canceled just as we were staggering the final yards. I can't say for certain that we would have reached a verdict. It was forever a moving target, like...