After ending the Transpac race and coming ashore in Hawaii final night time, I noticed this text¹ about Dennis Bailey, Merlin Legislation 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 legal professional, litigated civil instances for plaintiffs and defendants—with greater than 200 instances tried by juries. He additionally spent six years as a circuit choose 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 legal professional Michael Duffy) continues to characterize shoppers when instances attain courtrooms. Bailey additionally manages the agency’s authorized affairs and gives recommendation and counsel to attorneys on all the pieces 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 largest adjustments he has seen in his profession. Although the providers can scale back case logs and court docket bills, he says attorneys who as soon as tried 10 or 12 instances in court docket yearly now can go years with out approaching a jury. That’s a problem to an legal professional’s skilled progress.

‘You may’t inform somebody easy methods to strive a very good 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 instances are essential subjects Bailey has delivered to the fore within the month-to-month digital seminars he organizes and leads for Merlin Legislation Group.

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Bailey says his work at Merlin Legislation Group is akin to his work prosecuting, particularly youngster sexual abuse instances, in Broward County as a result of ‘my job is to go to court docket day by day and do the appropriate 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 really get pleasure from with the ability to in a position to go my information on to youthful attorneys.’

Here’s a hyperlink to the total article.

¹ David Harry, Merlin GC makes use of expertise, not magic, to mentor and handle attorneys, Vanguard, July 7, 2023.