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Month: May 2017

THE “GOLDEN MOMENT” ACCORDING TO JIM McELHANEY

THE “GOLDEN MOMENT” ACCORDING TO JIM McELHANEY

An article written by James W. McElhaney in 2004 was recently called to my attention. McElhaney is a wonderful teacher of solid trial techniques and a long time writer for the ABA Journal about communication in trial. This article was titled “No Time to Waste” and was published in the Journal at: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/no time_to_waste In writing about opening statement McElhaney writes about “the golden moment” which he says is the first 30 seconds you have when you first begin to speak on…

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GEORGE LAKOFF ADVICE FOR PLAINTIFF TRIAL LAWYERS

GEORGE LAKOFF ADVICE FOR PLAINTIFF TRIAL LAWYERS

I’ve written about the writings of George Lakoff many times including this post: https://plaintifftriallawyertips.com/george-lakoffs-the-political-mind Lakoff is a retired UC Berkeley professor and author of many publications on linguistics and communication. He has been involved in eleven books and lectured widely. Lakoff maintains Trump is a super salesman and predicted he would win the election. He was interviewed about this recently and a friend circulated it. You can find it in:  http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/05/02/berkeley-author-george-lakoff-says-dont-underestimate-trump/ In the interview he reminds us  about communication principles each…

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