I represent clients that have factual based legal issues. It is my job to make a record upon which any judge, licensing board, or appellate court can read and upon which a decision favoring my client can be based. In this day, making legal arguments that the “record” does not support do not win the day. I help my clients through solid preparation, broad factual support for our legal case, and effective legal writing that relies upon a record of evidence we made sure the hearing officer or judge allowed into the record. It does not serve my clients to make bald face legal claims unsupported by a factual record. It would be just too easy for the court to eviscerate unsubstantiated legal claims.
Judges are smart. Their law clerks are smart, too. It is very easy for a court to simply read a hearing transcript, or looking at other legal briefs filed in other cases, to grant or deny a legal or factual claim. This is why effective lawyering includes honestly, ethically, and legally protecting your and your client’s name before a judge. Lawyers that file frivolous legal claims, legal arguments, and flatly false allegations are easy targets for judicial decisions that deny their motions. Here is one such motion that the judge denied without flinching. Although the judge methodically reviewed the record, it was clear that their was no factual basis for the attorney’s arguments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/12/perkins-coie-trump-judge-restraining-order-tro/
