I have just returned from Hawaii where I took a deposition of my client because he has a fatal lung cancer and I wanted to perpetuate something of him by way of video deposition. Here is the basic outline I prepared, however the client has a tracheotomy and is unable to speak. He also has a serious hearing problem, both the result of over radiation for a head tumor. He is in bed at home and the only way to…
In 1985 Courtroom Communication Strategies by Lawrence J. Smith and Loretta A. Malandro was Published by Kluwer law book publishers Inc. When it was published I read this book cover to cover and yellow highlined it plus dictated an outline because it was the single most compressive collection of communication principles I’d found. Even today, this book remains as valid as when it was published because human nature hasn’t changed. While I believe it is out of print copies are…
I have been a trial lawyer for over fifty years with a law practice focused on those who have suffered damages or harm due to the fault of someone else. I’m usually content with what I have done for others during this last half century of being a lawyer until I go to an affair like the one I just attended. Last year I was inducted into the National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame along with Phil Corboy, Chicago; J.B. Spence, Florida;…