Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2015, Volume 28, Number 1
Content
- A Fond Vaarwel...
- A Path to Writeousness: What the Seven Deadly Sins Might Teach Us About Written Advocacy
- Adr Update: Dealing with Ab 2617
- Be Prepared: Your Week in Legal London Jurisdiction is no bar - the English barrister is abroad
- Editor's Foreword Class Without Ostentation
- Employers Take Note: the U.S. Supreme Court Has Entered the Digital Age
- Forfeiture at the Pleading Stage: Ask Permission First, Don't Apologize Later
- "I Learned About Litigating from That" Adapt and Take Advantage of Opportunities
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- McDermott On Demand: Pass the Scalpel, Please
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Reclaiming Our Noble Profession: Civility in the Practice of Law
- Table of Contents
- The Disentitlement Doctrine: a Trap for Unwary Judgment Debtors in Civil Appeals
- The Fine Line Between Protected Demand Letters and Extortion
- Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame: Being a Trial Lawyer
- The Litigator's Must-Know Lexicon of Idioms Used by Young Business Professionals
The Litigator’s Must-Know Lexicon of Idioms Used by Young Business Professionals
By Justice Elizabeth A. Grimes and Robert Toews
Justice Elizabeth A. Grimes
Robert Toews
Are you preparing for a deposition in Silicon Beach or Silicon Valley? Conducting voir dire in a business dispute, or with a venire of fast-talking young professionals? Trying a case involving startups, entrepreneurs, consultants or investment advisors, as parties, lay or expert witnesses? Then you may find useful the list of terms below — phrases commonly used by young professionals in a business setting. Our lexicon includes new idioms in bold, along with tried-and-true idioms in italics, to demonstrate how they go hand in hand.