KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
This is the official name for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This term refers to a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties.
What is a contract?
A morally flexible criminal defense attorney whose billboard persona and extensive knowledge of legal loopholes have brought them much success in the drug-trafficking world.
Who is Saul Goodman?
This written agreement resolves a dispute without the case going to trial and often includes confidentiality.
What is a settlement agreement?
(attorneys elaborate on personal experience)
Who would have been an art historian if not a laywer?
Who is Lindsey LePlae?
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This word describes statements made outside of court that are offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted.
What is hearsay?
A late entertainment and corporate attorney, partially accountable for the most publicly scrutinized acquittal in 20th-century United States legal history, with ties to the most well-known television dynasty in popular culture.
Who is Robert Kardashian?
A lawyer asks the court to exclude unreliable scientific or expert testimony through this type of challenge.
What is a Daubert challenge?
(attorneys elaborate on personal experience)
Who was in Barack Obama law school class?
Who is Susan Freiwald?
This amendment guarantees your right to a speedy and public trial, and the right to an attorney.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This phrase refers to a lawyer’s duty to act in the best interest of their client with loyalty and confidentiality.
What is fiduciary duty?
A rookie NYC lawyer whose mastery of the art of cross-examination was demonstrated during a family member's murder trial in rural Alabama.
Who is Vinny Gambini?
This occurs when a judge decides that a case should not continue because the evidence is insufficient.
What is a dismissal?
(attorneys elaborate on personal experience)
Who went to Stanford law school?
Who is Glen Williams?
A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime, issued by a grand jury, required before a capital or infamous trial.
What is an indictment?
This legal term refers to a party’s ability to bring a lawsuit, requiring a concrete injury and a personal stake in the outcome.
What is standing?
Professor of Criminal Law 100 and a distinguished trial attorney recognized for their focus on high-stakes cases, exploitative strategies, and powerful walk.
Who is Annalise Keating?
This occurs when a lawyer must withdraw from representing a client due to conflict of interest.
What is recusal/mandatory withdrawal?
(attorneys elaborate on personal experience)
Who would have been a cosmologist if not a laywer?
Who is Mark Bradford
These are the five core freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
What is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition?
This principle holds that a higher court’s rulings bind lower courts in the same jurisdiction.
What is vertical precedent?
Legal clerk who set a record for one of the largest settlements in a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history against PG&E
Who is Erin Brockovich?
In appellate courts, this term refers to the written explanation of why the court reached its decision.
What is an opinion?
(attorneys elaborate on personal experience)
Whose favorite hobby outside of law is pickleball?
Who is Jean Shrem?