Be Ready to Justify Every Step
Your own legal team will lead you through justifications and explanations of each step through your investigation. Be prepared to stop at any point and answer “Why” questions. Your team should prepare these questions and answers during trial preparation. Although it can be tedious, you will have to provide detailed explanations that satisfy the most skeptical listeners as to why you performed some action.
The real challenge comes during cross examination. Your own legal team questions you from the perspective that you performed your job appropriately and acquired evidence that proves facts. The opposing counsel will take the opposite approach. To the other side, the evidence does not prove the facts as they are ...
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