When a judge has sustained an opponent's objection to your evidence, you waive any appellate error unless you make a proper offer of proof. Lawyers know this in the ...

Last week, I wrote about proof which I said was the stuff that evidence was made of. More precisely, I held out that proof is the “effect” of evidence on a particular fact or set of facts. It is what ...

Most states have an offer of judgment provision,[1] and many of them are patterned after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68. Unlike Fed. R. Civ. P. 68, some states allow either party—not just the ...