Unwanted Suitors – The Temple 10-Q

When the wolf is literally at your door and an unwelcome offer to buy your company arrives, what is the role of in-house counsel? That situation is playing out in real time on CNBC, trade journals and newspapers as Canadian Pacific Rail and its legendary CEO, Hunter Harrison, along with activist

Seven Steps to (Hearsay) Heaven – Advocacy and Evidence Resources

Step 7 – don’t forget the invisible witness. Too few lawyers [and judges] consider and apply Rule 806. One of the most potent rules of evidence, 806 permits impeachment of the hearsay declarant the same as if the speaker was on the witness stand, And, of course, the declarant can’t respond or explain. These, then, are the seven steps.

Case Selection and Secondary Trauma – Voices at Temple

I don’t relish my student’s traumatic experiences. I am happy, however, that they are happening with me there to support them. Perhaps I should be a little less overtly honest about it with my students. As they came in over the last few weeks to relay some of their traumatic experiences to me, maybe I should not have moved so quickly to tell my students how much I thought they were …

Chris Taffe – Temple Law

Hometown: Yuma, Arizona Education: Arizona State, B.S., Justice Studies; Arizona Western College, A.A., Administration of Justice ; Job: Montgomery County District …