I have used NLRG probably a dozen times over the years. Always with good results and at good prices. There was one particular stand-out, dramatic, trial moment which could have cost me the case but for a short, four page trial memo NLRG prepared for me. I was lucky enough to spot a potential nasty trial issue, a very unusual and complicated evidence question that I could not get my head around. Sure enough, the issue came up at trial. My star witness could flame out and my case with her. The defendant insurance company objected to my witness. The judge looked over at me said: 'Well, what about it Mr. Gordon. I do not see how you get around that.’ On any other day I would have been overtaken with nausea. Unruffled, I reached down, picked up my briefcase, put it on the table, opened it, click, click, plucked out the memo, and asked: May I submit this your honor? She said ‘yes’. I handed it up to the judge, passed a copy to the plaintiff’s attorney and then stood like a wooden Indian for about three minutes. When the judge finished reading she looked over to the plaintiff’s table and asked if they had a response. Crickets. Then the judge just said “Overruled.” Relief. It was my case to lose after that. All downhill from there. A big win - an $80,000.00 insurance claim - that very likely would have been lost but for the NLRG trial memo in my briefcase. I relinquish, convey and remit any and all property rights that I may have in the foregoing story about NLRG and the trial memo to NLRG and NLRG is free to treat it as their own property.
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