Archive for November, 2007

Contest: Tell Me Your Favorite Legal Website or Blog

November 12th, 2007

Do lawyers make better bloggers? I doubt it. But there are certainly hundreds (thousands?) of legal blogs and websites on the Internet. For reasons that will become plain below, Newdorf Legal announces its first contest: Tell me your favorite law-related website or blog. To enter, respond to this article with a Comment/Reply below and a […]

Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Argument In Strip Search Class Action

November 11th, 2007

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on November 6, 2007, heard oral argument in Bull v. City and County of San Francisco, a class action challenging the County Jail’s former strip search policy. Until January 2004, the San Francisco County Jail made an unclothed visual inspection for drugs and weapons of […]

The Top 10 Killer Deposition Questions

November 1st, 2007

One of the prime reasons to spend the time and money to depose an adverse witness is to gather impeachment material.  Other than hiring a private investigator to delve into the witness’s past, the deposition is the most effective tool in the lawyer’s arsenal for uncovering dirt and chipping away at credibility.  That includes attacking an […]