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Shut up and Listen: How to Become a Passive Listener
Want to become a better Trial Attorney? Become a passive listener... a REAL listener. Learn to be a passive listener, ask probing questions after the client or prospective client has told you what they want to tell you. Learn to be a passive listener. Read more »The Happily Ever After: Helping Jurors Be Heroes in Your Fairy Tale
When there's a particularly tough story, jurors love the fact that when a person is fighting to come out of a very dire situation. Read more »The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truths in Jury Trials
Trial Attorney discusses embracing ugly truths and fleshing them out to find out what do they really mean for the case Read more »Snitches Get Kisses: Don’t Beat up the Snitches!!
When there's a snitch witness in your criminal case, the temptation is to just beat them up. They're scoundrels, they're liars, they have criminal records, they're not to be trusted and you just want to beat up on them so bad, and what I've learned in the course of my studies, especially when I was at the trial lawyer college, and since then, I've been involved with training with the trial lawyer college, been to a lot of seminars. One of the things you learn is it's not really a bad idea at all to learn to respect and be empathetic to and express love and compassion for people, even if they're adverse to your case. Read more »Under the Rosebush: Sub-Rosa Videos Do Not Tell the Real Story
When a person is injured, ask them what it's like for them afterward. And what you'll find out is that the story that Sub-Rosa videos don't tell is what happens in the living room, when this person goes inside and they pop open a pain pill bottle and they take out a pain pill to take a pain pill because they're miserable. And sometimes they'll tell you that they get upset. It makes them cry, or they sit in their recliner for the rest of the afternoon or the evening depressed and sad because they hurt so bad. Read more »The Whole Truth: Embracing The Warts And Wrinkles Of A Case
Every compelling story that you will tell as a trial lawyer has some ugly truth to it. Sometimes when you have a client in a criminal case, you represent a criminal defendant who's been in trouble before, maybe many times before. Maybe your client made some admissions during the course of a police interrogation, maybe they confessed to a crime that they didn't commit. Maybe your personal injury client is dependent on pain medicine, or they become addicted. Read more »
