Civil Procedure I

3 September

• Some thoughts on speaking and hand positions.
• Style and confidence are important.
• Being a lawyer is playing a role. There's no moment that causes you to become a lawyer.
• Every legal problem will involve some uncertainty, and we will have to invent or discover some of the tools we need.
• Lawyer problems are open-ended, but not abstract.
• Part of the advantage of a 6-person (fed civil) jury, e.g., is that more people will catch more factual material: it's collaborative, not just majority rule.
• Note that with changes in the law and the rules, the techniques of law practice also change; life-long learning is important, therefore, as is being reflective about how we learn.
• There will be a course web page on LexisNexis. Assignments, etc., will be there, also handouts. It will also be the filing system for our case.
• The Raheem case is 2008 in MKE. Raheem Jackson is the parent of the deceased. There is video from the scene. Civil Rights wrongful death action. Make some arguments based on Tenessee v. Garner
• First decision: will we take this case?