Titanic

As you may know, Ryan Gregerson (my PC [practice court] partner) and I were assigned to the Titanic case - obviously a case based on the sinking of the Titanic and a case no Baylor Law Student ever wants to be assigned.  Our trial was 5 days long from about 1-5 each day in front of a lay jury at the federal courthouse in Waco.  I'll spare you all of the gruesome details about how much work and stress it was, but I will tell you that when the jury verdict was read Ryan and I couldn't have been happier.  In a case with two plaintiffs and two defendants, with the plaintiffs and other defendants all making claims against us, we left the court room with zero liability!  Pretty good feeling!  In fact, Ryan and I nearly engaged in a man-embrace to share tears of joy when the judge read the verdict, but there was no real money involved, so we held back our emotions.  Here are some of the pics from the trial.  Enjoy.

Here's one with me telling the judge that 

grapefruit are supposed to be large and round.

I think my hands are over exaggerating the 

size of most grapefruit, but you get the idea.

(Not really, the case had nothing to do with grapefruit)

Here's me sporting a sweet double chin!

The best part is that I was impeaching the crap

out of this guy - double chin and all.  In fact,

I was so good that I sent him into a state

of temporary paralysis.  Notice the stiff arms and

distant stare.  As you can see, the judge was 

rather concerned.  

This is a picture of another bench conference.

Tim (the guy holding up his left hand) is about

to backhand the guy in the tan suit.  I really picked

a bad spot because the backhand caused a 

string of spit to fly from tan-suit man's mouth

and cover my tie.  At Baylor we're taught to be

aggressive.

Here is a picture of all but two of the attorneys.

the two ends are defense attorneys for the two 

defendants, and the people in the center

are the plaintiff's attorneys.  The guy on the left

has a detonator control in his hand and he's

going to click it if his witness sucks.  He should

have clicked it.

And last but not least, this is the picture that

scored me a sweet make out session with Leah

after the trial was over.  She said this picture

helped her get over the one with the double chin.

Frankly I think I just look angry, but I'm told

that I looked just like this all week.