The South was, is and probably will always be different. Yet too many attorneys with big stakes involved cannot or will not play to that particular audience. That's what trial-watchers are opining about the $1.67 billion jury verdict against Abbott Labs.
As Zusha Ellison tells it in the legal publication THE RECORDER the attorney William Lee, a top Intellectual Property lawyer with WilmerHale, went cerebral. His opponent did the closing arguments for his client Johnson & Johnson all kinds of folksy, with plenty of fire and brimstone thrown in.
Unlike that brilliant performance art, Lee presented dry arguments. When addressing the jury, he even had his arms crossed in front of him.
In his book "Murder By Family," Kent Whitaker echoes Ellison's reporting. The prosecutor in the murder case in which Whitaker's son was the defendant sought and got the death penalty. The trial was in Texas. The prosecutor pounded his fist and broke into tears.
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