Perspective
Aug. 17, 2010
How to Defend Cases on the Mexican Border
Fear not the misconceptions surrounding "border town" jury trials and fight hard for your defendant with these techniques, by Raymond D. McElfish of McElfish Law Firm.
A common misconception among attorneys faced with defending U.S. corporations and insurers in "border towns" is that jury trials are simply not winnable. These border towns - the small, usually impoverished cities that run along the northern side of the U.S. Mexican border from California to Texas - are assumed to have juries inherently biased towards the plaintiff that will automatically rule against outsiders regardless ...
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