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

Mark Bennett | 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 Medley [...]

Mean Girls in the Courtroom?

Mark Bennett | 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 by finding [...]