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| Authored by: PJ on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 08:18 AM EDT |
My impression is that she was new to the court, and
she had been a patent attorney before that, so she
certainly knew about the star power of Michale Jacobs
of Morrison & Foerster. He has a presence that
works with judges, aside from being knowledgeable
and skilled and benefitting from a lot of experience.
So in he walks, and he exudes pleasant can-do. He's
respectful to judges, and he offers them help in little
things, so they get to rely on him.
I think he's a terrific lawyer, frankly, and she
no doubt noticed that too. So when someone like
that says Blah Blah means that X should be Y, you
might say, OK. At each step of the pre-trial
battles, he was there saying Blah Blah means that
X should be Y.
Only after the jury messed up so badly did she
realize, I suspect, that she'd been had. Wait, no,
she realized it during the trial when she said that
she no longer trusted the lawyers on either side.
Remember that?
So it was an educational experience for her, and
you've seen changes since then in her rulings and
her demeanor. The second trial isn't being set up
like the first one, I notice, as she is asking them
to narrow things etc.
Celebrity is confusing to people, and judges are
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