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Month: July 2010

The attitude of a trial lawyer , calling the defendant in your case&neuroscience

The attitude of a trial lawyer , calling the defendant in your case&neuroscience

I’m leaving for the Spence Trial College on Sunday for my week of teaching there, so I have only time for a short post. Let me share a couple of recent E-mails to fellow plaintiff trial lawyers on several different subjects. The first one deals with my view about a failure many plaintiff lawyers have – the desire to be liked by everyone and the fear of being disliked. So, here’s my take for your consideration:    "The goal of great…

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Outline of notes on credibility

Outline of notes on credibility

 A few years ago I represented the children of a deceased father. His wife had been dead for several years before he died. A lawsuit was filed by a woman acquaintance against his estate.  She claimed she was entitled to a large share of his estate on the basis of multiple claims including a promise to leave her money and other similar claims. She lost and eventually was required to pay my clients costs and attorney fees. I had a collection of notes on…

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Ideas from the wyoming trial lawyers convention

Ideas from the wyoming trial lawyers convention

The Wyoming Trial Lawyers’ Association held their annual meeting in Jackson in June of this year. I was privileged to be invited to speak. The convention materials were very informative. Here are a couple of excerpts from two of the convention papers. David Bossart Fargo, North Dakota provided a paper entitled Law, Lawyers & Listening, What do they have in Common. He quotes from the book Listen Up by Larry Barker, Ph.D. and Kittie Watson, Ph.D., St. Martin’s Press, New…

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