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Month: October 2016

IDEAS ABOUT “CLOSING THE DEAL” IN A PLAINTIFF’S TRIAL PRACTICE

IDEAS ABOUT “CLOSING THE DEAL” IN A PLAINTIFF’S TRIAL PRACTICE

When I started my plaintiff’s trial practice it soon became apparent to me that, like or not,  I was involved in sales – professional sales – but nevertheless sales.  I was selling myself to prospective clients, selling an idea or legal position to judges and selling my client’s case to juries. The first place I was professionally selling was to clients because it became apparent to me that I needed to have clients agree to hire me in order to have a…

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DEALING WITH COMMONLY HELD JUROR BIAS IN JURY SELECTION

DEALING WITH COMMONLY HELD JUROR BIAS IN JURY SELECTION

People and jurors have commonly held beliefs that are in conflict with our issues in our cases. After decades of the national Chamber  of Commerce, big business and insurance industry propaganda against tort litigation and plaintiff trial attorneys, we can assume that all jurors  have been tainted to one extent or another with anti tort bias. Given the political fighting over immigration, we can assume that representing an immigrant, especially an undocumented one, has issues as does representing Muslims. Then…

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THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON & ADMITTING I MADE A MISTAKE

THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON & ADMITTING I MADE A MISTAKE

I admit I make a mistake by relying upon Dragon diction and failing to monitor the dictated material. The result: embarrassing substituted words like “heirs” when I mean “errors” and lots of them, It was negligent of me and I am sorry. That’s what happens  when you are leaving on a trip to Europe and prepare  several posts in advance for scheduled publication while gone, but not having the responsibility to proof read them. I was shocked when I read…

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