What do you do on the weekend before trial? Are you cramming? Do you try to relax a bit? Do you spend time with the client?
An old colleague of mine at the PD's, Vince Farina, used to say -- if you don't know it by now, you don't know it. He would go get a massage and a haircut.
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Nah - at that point, what's gonna happen is what's gonna happen. Might as well relax.
The idea of "relaxing" the weekend before a trial seems bizarre to me. Now certainly you should try to eat well and bank rest because you need your stamina. But you have a person's life in your hands. You have to continue to work on the case to ensure that you give your optimal performance. With all due respect to Mr. Farina, being an effective trial lawyer is not simply a matter of "knowing it." Knowing the case is certainly important, but how to best communicate your defense to the jury and your arguments to the judge is a matter of continual refinement. And to the person who said "whatever's gonna happen, gonna happen," you obviously have never tried a case or are a judge or both.
Your client could not be in better hands. You got this!
Vince would also get a manicure! I follow that tradition.
Oh hi - that was me. But I'm not a criminal defense lawyer and would never want to be. No one's life is ever in my hands, nor would I want it to be. I just fight over money. So I relax the weekend before.
Sounds like this guy could definitely use some relaxation. Or a Xanax. Yikes. Coming of age (professionally) in the 80s is not good for the heart, my friend. There's literally studies on that now, ya know?
Is that massage a spa treatment or an 8th Street special? Makes a big difference.
Dude, relaxed and well rested is the best way to head into a Monday trial. Cramming the night before is no way to live your life.
To quote one of the greatest bands of all time "
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEsE9yN2CY
this is how i relax before a case. Its worked great so far for me!
I pledge allegiance to Almighty Trump that I can backroom plead my cases and become US Attorney one day. I am afraid to argue my own appeal before the Court, don't work past 430 pm, as a closet DEI member and plan to take my wife's last name, before I swipe left for my next drink date. Hopely they will not take my National Security creds, because I can no longer pass the background check. BTW, I must rehearse my story and I have to be sure to discuss how my family has assimilated so well, that I pass at the Federalist Society, I love Amerikka!
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