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Litigation

Apr. 16, 2002

Reaching for Evidence

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Trials in commercial cases often involve large numbers of exhibits that require counsel to laboriously lay foundations for the documents' admission into evidence. This process often causes lawyers to fumble around with evidentiary issues to frame the proper questions, much to the frustration of judges and jurors. It is important, therefore, that counsel know precisely what questions are necessary to avoid getting bogged down in objections and false starts during trial.

        Dicta Column
        
        By Kirk A. Pasich
        
        Trials in commercial cases often involve large numbers of exhibits that require counsel to laboriously lay foundations for the documents' admission into ev...

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