Meet the Commercial Litigators Attorney in Houston, Texas
Meet Dwaine Massey
Meet Dwaine Massey
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to be successful the courtroom
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it boils down to one word and that’s
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preparation
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i mean a lot of times we see the the tv
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shows where you see the lawyer with the
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dazzling argument
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in the courtroom but what the shows
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don’t
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reflect is the amount of time the lawyer
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spends
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in the office after hours on weekends
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getting ready for trial
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one of the things we try to do because
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this is an adversarial process is we try
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to spend
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a fair amount of time
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anticipating the opposing side’s
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arguments and being able to address them
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especially those arguments that come up
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for the first time
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in the courtroom we also spend time
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trying to help the judge help
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us that is if the jet if the case
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involves
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some novel areas of law or areas of law
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that the judge may not be familiar with
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from their former legal practice
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we make sure that we prepare trial
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briefs to educate the judge
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and get them prepared to make the
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rulings that will help our client
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and then if it’s a jury trial we also
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help the jury help us as well
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in a jury of 12 people they’re going to
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be two three
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maybe four people who go back in the
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jury room and argue your side of the
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case and what you want to make sure you
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do
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is you give those people at least those
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people
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the information and arguments that they
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will need to
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uh to help persuade their peers
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to uh to finding your client’s favor
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i think my background as an accountant
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and a former certified public accountant
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has really helped me
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in representing my clients and my
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commercial cases
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my understanding of financial accounting
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audit and tax concepts and principles
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has been invaluable
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i am very familiar with financial
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statements having prepared them early on
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in my career
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and i think my clients appreciate the
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fact that i can
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can understand and decipher those issues
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at least as well and probably
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better than most of my peers
Houston, TX commercial litigation attorney Dwaine Massey talks about what it takes to be successful in the courtroom as well as his background & experience.
