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THE POWER OF VISUALIZATION

THE POWER OF VISUALIZATION

In 1960 an American plastic surgeon wrote a book he titled Psycho Cybernetics. It was a long time bestseller and influenced over the following years many other motivational writers and others to follow his recommendations and teachings. The premise of the book was that in spite of his surgical improvements he found that even after successful cosmetic surgery patients did not always have a  new and improved picture of themselves. In spite of the correction of the cosmetic defect there  was no change of…

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LEGAL ADVICE ABOUT TRIAL ISSUES GIVEN OTHERS

LEGAL ADVICE ABOUT TRIAL ISSUES GIVEN OTHERS

From time to time I give advice to plaintiff  lawyer friends regarding their cases. (sometimes when I’m  not asked) I thought I share some general responses I’ve given recently as way to stimulate your own ideas about these issues. Here they are. A lawyer who had a medical malpractice case against a midwife for shoulder injuries at birth asked a group  of plaintiff  lawyers what we  thought of his chances and the damages after he outlined the facts to us. Here were my thoughts….

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NOTES FROM A TRIAL LAWYER’S SEMINAR

NOTES FROM A TRIAL LAWYER’S SEMINAR

In early September of this year I did a demonstration of a final argument at a plaintiff trial lawyer’s convention in another state. I was able to listen to some of the other speakers and  I made some notes about what they said that made sense to me. Here are some random ideas I wrote down you might find helpful. A speaker about jury selection made the point that  you should not ask the same question about an issue of each juror because the other…

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