Legal Opening Statement

Running head: LEGAL OPENING STATEMENT
Legal Opening Statement
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Specimen Form of Legal litigation opening statement on behalf of the defendant
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ........................ AT ........................
DEFENDANT' OPENING BRIEF ............ OF
IN THE MATTER OF........
M/s........................ Mr. Grabowski.....
....Respondent/Defendant
May it please the Humble Chief Justice of the High Court of........................ and his
Lordship’s companion
Justices,
The Defendant Party
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH:
A. The POAM is a public employee labor organization (union). For the purposes of this
case, POAM represented by Martha Champine who is attorney representing the defendant
party, the patrol officers for the City of Birmingham, and in particular, makes them to
understand the pleadings and the dispositions.
B. As an employer/union relationship is carved out under the Michigan Public Employment
Relations Act (PERA) securing the right of public employees to organize, form, and join
unions in this State (Petrocelli, Guilmette and McNamara 2017). Once a labor
organization becomes the exclusive bargaining representative of the employees of a

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particular employer, then the employer must recognize the union and engage in what we
call collective bargaining.
C. The defendant in the case is a citizen of United States and in the States of Michigan. The
attorney is who after hearing and considering all testimony and evidence will come up
with a decision as to the merits of the grievance itself. This is a time-consuming and
costly proceeding for both sides of the employer and the union.
D. The attorney of the defendant is the Police Officers Association of Michigan plaintiff is
the certified agent acting as a attorney for the defendant and other non supervisory police
officers employed in the police department by the defendant city of Birmingham. After
the grievance steps were exhausted and the grievance not resolved, the union chose not to
take the case to attorney.
E. Mr Grabowski is the advocate and is representing the defendant. He is here to decide a
litigation opening statement on behalf of the defendant
F. In the year 2000 there a case which where the defendant POAM. They are of the view
that the opposite party will not be able to prove and will fall short of the claims raised.
G. The theory of liability is under what we call the duty of fair representation claim. This
was provided documents in the Course Documents section explaining the legal
underpinnings of a duty of fair representation claim here in the State of Michigan
H. The court rules provide that before there is introduction in the evidence, both the attorney
and the party which commences the evidence shall have to make a full evidence which
must be full and fair statement of the party’s case and the facts that the party intends to
prove.