After ending the Transpac race and coming ashore in Hawaii final evening, I noticed this text1 about Dennis Bailey, Merlin Regulation Group’s common counsel and head of our agency’s trial division:
Merlin GC makes use of expertise, not magic, to mentor and handle attorneys
In his profession, Dennis Bailey has served as a prosecutor and prison protection lawyer, litigated civil circumstances for plaintiffs and defendants—with greater than 200 circumstances tried by juries. He additionally spent six years as a circuit decide for Florida’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, positioned in Fort Lauderdale, and he and his brother, Tim Bailey, grew to become the primary brothers to serve concurrently on that bench.
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As head of the agency’s trial division, he (and managing lawyer Michael Duffy) continues to symbolize shoppers when circumstances attain courtrooms. Bailey additionally manages the agency’s authorized affairs and gives recommendation and counsel to attorneys on the whole lot from mediation methods to presenting a case to a jury.
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Bailey says the rise in court-ordered mediation or arbitration to settle disputes is among the greatest adjustments he has seen in his profession. Although the providers can cut back case logs and courtroom bills, he says attorneys who as soon as tried 10 or 12 circumstances in courtroom yearly now can go years with out approaching a jury. That’s a problem to an lawyer’s skilled progress.
‘You may’t inform somebody the way to strive a superb case. They must be on their toes in entrance of juries,’ Bailey says.
Creating methods for mediation and arbitration in addition to taking depositions from specialists to construct circumstances are essential subjects Bailey has delivered to the fore within the month-to-month digital seminars he organizes and leads for Merlin Regulation Group.
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Bailey says his work at Merlin Regulation Group is akin to his work prosecuting, particularly baby sexual abuse circumstances, in Broward County as a result of ‘my job is to go to courtroom day-after-day and do the fitting factor.’
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‘The size of time I’ve been doing this and strolling the earth makes me a greater lawyer,’ Bailey says. ‘At this level in my profession, I actually take pleasure in with the ability to capable of cross my data on to youthful attorneys.’
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