Listen In In an interview for The Litigation War Room, Nicole Westbrook discusses deposition skills, the pros and cons of arbitration, the challenges of remote technology, and her advocacy for women in the law. “Look at your jury instructions. What do you have for your elements? . . . You don’t need to get into… Read more »
Trial lawyers and instructors Nicole Westbrook and Cash Parker have developed strategies for more effective contracts. Here they share what works and what doesn’t, what reduces the risk of litigation and what issues are likely end up in court. By Nicole Westbrook and Cash Parker As trial lawyers and instructors for the National Institute for… Read more »
Litigator Nicole Westbrook answers three common questions regarding multilevel marketing companies, their distributors and the policies and contracts that can lead to disputes. By Nicole Westbrook Multilevel marketing (MLM) companies are a different breed. These direct sales companies do not have employees so much as they have independent contractors or distributors, which leads to more… Read more »
When MLM companies fail to deal conscionably with the large array of legal issues and personalities along the growth curve, especially when its distributors circle the globe, the ramifications are commonly heaped onto the shoulders of the distributors. By Nicole Westbrook and Al Sahlstrom When it comes to network marketing companies, commonly referred to as… Read more »
A rookie mistake sheds light on how cooperation among opposing counsel can lead to better client outcomes, and tips on how to get there. By Nicole Westbrook for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Ed Lyons, a commercial litigator at Jones & Keller, has more than four decades of courtroom experience trying tough cases in… Read more »
To most, the GameStop frenzy reeks of market manipulation of some sort and investors are calling for justice. We’ve seen this before. By Nicole Westbrook. Four weeks ago, GameStop’s stock (GME) was trading around $18 per share. Four trading days later, the price doubled. This week it doubled two more times and by Wednesday’s close,… Read more »
By Nicole Westbrook for NITA. Hefty trial loads — and potentially, the weighting of cases — may be on the court case docket in Colorado, 2021. The justice system is weighted down by a backlog that grows larger by the day. Even while the courts struggled to ease their doors open this fall, the recent… Read more »
“What I will say, though, about women that are in law now, or starting out as maybe junior associates or trying to move up the ranks, maybe just coming out of law school, is that they have a lot of choices and a lot of potential. It’s an industry that is built on the backs… Read more »
The unconscionable actions and rantings that led up to the murder of the son of a New Jersey federal judge show the sad underbelly of gender discrimination in law. U.S. District Judge Alia Moses and Nicole Westbrook, a litigator with Jones & Keller, say the current construct of the legal profession feeds anti-feminist thinking, but it can change. Learn how we can constructively move toward an expedited and effective judicial process based on the facts of a case, not the gender of the attorneys trying or presiding over the case.
Remote arbitration during Covid-19 can put litigators at a disadvantage, if not done well. In Bloomberg Law Insights, Nicole Westbrook, a trial instructor and attorney at Jones & Keller, says some sort of remote arbitration will most likely last after the pandemic and offers tips on how litigators can fight its equalizing effects to achieve client goals.