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Is the outcome any different if the lawyer has a technical background?

• ska 7y ago
  It may well change the lawyer's approach. And it's probably helpful in protecting against deposition bombing. But at the end of the day, they still have to present evidence and defend it's inclusion if needed, so their role doesn't change fundamentally.
• munk-a 7y ago
  I'm sure many times lawyers don't have expertise in the matter of the trial, but part of their job involves gaining expertise in the subject matter in order to properly pose a stance regarding the potential judgement. A lawyer without a firm grasp of the subject matter is just a bad lawyer... but we don't have that expectation of judges, the assumption is that the judge should push back on assumptions of general knowledge that the judge lacks and force the sides to present a logical argument that the judge can actually comprehend through their own knowledge of the subject matter... This is where I think things have broken down too often recently, lazy judges let lawyers get away with establishing unfounded statements that they accept without full comprehension - then the lawyers build arguments based off of those bad assumptions.