Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Voir Dire

Most states pronounce this in the French fashion, "Vwah Deer," but Texans know better. Here, it's pronounced like it looks, "voy-er die-er"

That's what we did in Advocacy today. It was fun. But I don't know if I'd like doing it "for real."

Lots of good stuff, though. There's a lot to jury selection and deselection than meets the eye.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've been practicing law in California for twenty years now, and I still say it the Texas ways. It sounds so much better. It may be a French term, but we here are in America! (So, while I don't buy American cars, I do buy into American pronunciation.)