While watching her father cross-examine a witness in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch invokes the first rule of cross-examination that most lawyers—Atticus Finch included—learn: “Never, never, never ...

Cross-examination is a big deal for a key witness. I’ve noticed in trial that it gets some added attentiveness from the jury. Knowing that they’re now seeing one side pitted directly against the other ...

Q: I am being called as a witness in a criminal case. This is because I was at a restaurant when two guys got into it. I saw first hand what happened. One of them initiated it and wound up knocked out ...

Amber Heard wrapped up her testimony Tuesday in the protracted defamation case being argued between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp — but not before showing flashes of combativeness and annoyance while ...

From a legal point of view, there are two kinds of questions. OK, maybe four, but the latter two are really riffs on the basic two. Questions on direct examination are a species of their own and ...

Requiring cross-examination in campus sexual-misconduct proceedings is among the key features of the Department of Education’s proposed Title IX reforms currently open for public comment. The ...

Nearly three and a half years into the Trump Administration’s term, the United States Department of Education has finally published its new regulations governing campus sexual assault cases. The ...