PREPARE IN ADVANCE FOR NEW CLIENT CONFERENCES WITH A CHECKLIST
A common mistake lawyers make in our communications with people is to assume that people understand what we have said or already know something that was left unsaid. Too often in our jury trials we use abbreviations or acronyms assuming everybody understands their meaning when they don’t. The more experience we have and the more we know about a subject, the greater our tendency to forget to clearly, completely and simply explain it to others. When we are meeting with…