Cross-examination is the stuff of drama in fictional courtroom depictions. The savvy lawyer taking on a hostile witness on the stand—these are the moments TV and movie audiences live for. However, the ...

Under the new Biden administration, the future feasibility of OCR’s all-or-nothing stance on cross-examination will be examined – if not by OCR itself, then likely by the federal courts. And it’s ...

Q: I am being called as a witness in a criminal case. This is because I was at a restaurant when two guys got into it. I saw first hand what happened. One of them initiated it and wound up knocked out ...

When the Department of Education (ED) issued the final rule in May 2020 mandating compliance by Aug. 14, 2020, one of the most hotly contested issues was cross-examination and the effects of not ...

Speaking to a client during cross-examination could affect that client’s credibility. My client was in the middle of cross-examination in a criminal case when he asked to be able to speak to me. Am I ...

From a legal point of view, there are two kinds of questions. OK, maybe four, but the latter two are really riffs on the basic two. Questions on direct examination are a species of their own and ...