Experience for Newer Attorneys
Judge Cummings encourages attorneys and their clients to provide substantive speaking opportunities to less experienced attorneys during any of the Court’s proceedings, including motion and status hearings, oral argument, pretrial conferences, evidentiary hearings and trials. To that end, Judge Cummings may allow more than one attorney per side to speak during any proceeding. Lead attorneys may not only confer with the newer attorney to suggest additional argument or examination questions, but they also may interject as reasonably necessary to deliver additional argument or even to conduct additional witness examination.
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