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ShareholderJason D. Kraus is a Shareholder in Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s Litigation practice group, where he focuses on business litigation, complex real estate litigation, transactions, and development matters.
Jason has extensive ...
When a commercial tenant stops paying rent, the conventional response is often predictable: send a default notice, terminate the lease, file an eviction proceeding and wait. But Texas law offers another option—one that can be faster and, in the right circumstances, considerably more effective.
A Texas commercial lockout may allow a landlord to change the locks and exclude a delinquent commercial tenant from the premises without first obtaining a court order, posting a bond, or securing a writ. Properly used, a commercial lockout is among the most powerful remedies available to a ...
“You ordered the Code Red.”
Few courtroom scenes are as instantly recognizable as the climactic cross-examination in A Few Good Men. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee confronts Colonel Nathan Jessup about the death of a young Marine in Cuba. What begins as a controlled examination steadily tightens until Jessup, indignant at having his judgment questioned by a junior officer, finally admits the fact the entire case turns upon.
The scene is Hollywood. The lesson is not.
What makes an effective cross examination? Effective cross-examination is built on preparation, control, and a ...