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Lessons in Media Relations and Blogging, from Tyler Flood [Updated, and Again]

| November 7, 2009

Tyler Flood (one of the smartest lawyers Tyler Flood has ever met!) says of his recent deba­cle in the Hous­ton Press: Dur­ing the course of this process I praised so many of my col­leagues and even told Mike who to talk to, includ­ing Jed [Sil­ver­man], Gary [Trichter], Troy [McK­in­ney], [Mark] Thiessen, Murph [Doug Mur­phy], Jim […]

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Mean Girls in the Courtroom?

| January 17, 2008

Here I men­tioned “the usual older-female-prosecutor head games” that Kelly Siegler unsuc­cess­fully employed against me in a two-kilo cocaine trial. Robert Guest com­mented, inquir­ing: What are older female pros­e­cu­tor head games? Like the jedi mind trick? Not exactly. “Older-female-prosecutor head games” are attempts by older female pros­e­cu­tors to throw younger male defense lawyers off their game […]

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