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Dan Small is a partner in Holland & Knight's
Boston and
Miami offices.
Trials tend to be plagued by verbal clutter - that is,
unnecessary words spoken by lawyers and witnesses (and, yes,
sometimes judges). Those words obscure the purpose of the
testimony, frustrate and confuse the jury, and prolonging the
trial
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