President's Message

• Jurisdiction: Kansas,United States
• Citation: Vol. 78 No. 3 Pg. 06
• Publication year: 2009
• Pages: 06
• Year: 2009
• topic: Business of Law,Civil Procedure

President's Message No. 78 J. Kan. Bar Assn 3, 06 (2009) Kansas Bar Journal March, 2009

FROM THE PRESIDENT

Thomas E. “Tom” Wright

It's Life's Illusions I Recall

Joni Mitchell expresses it this way in "Clouds":

I've looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose and still somehow, Its life's illusions I recall, I really don't know life at all.

Trials are like that too. It's the illusion that we recall. Winning or losing at trial is sometimes an illusion — that is — something that appears to be what it isn't. Recently I wrote about a case blowing apart when a witness changed or "corrected" his testimony during trial. Frankly I didn't consider the outcome a loss but my wife, Carole, thought it certainly sounded like a loss. Being very supportive, she felt it was important that I tell about a case that I won. That certainly...