Our greatest failure as plaintiff’s trial lawyers is not listening with concentration. We don’t really listen to everything the juror is saying or in a nonverbal way communicating to us in jury selection. We don’t do a good job of making it clear to that juror that we have heard and accept in a totally nonjudgmental way whatever they have told us. We don’t carefully listen to the witness testifying in order to know how to follow up. Listening is…
I’ve already published about these two software’s for trial lawyers https://plaintifftriallawyertips.com/trialpad-and-transcript-pad-for-trial-lawyers but I am preparing for a Seattle trial scheduled for October 14th and reminds me to talk about the usefulness of them again. You’ll recall that TranscriptPad is designed for use with depositions and runs $50 to buy. It can be downloaded to your I-Pad as can the companion software TrialPad. TrialPad is designed for case organization and use in the courtroom. It runs $90. It means I have my entire…
Well, I made back from the Wyoming trial college. This year’s class was a great group who were motivated to learn. The subject that week was primarily jury selection. We also started direct examination after demonstrating the listening exercise where people learn how to actively listen. We had the benefit of Gerry doing a long jury selection demonstration. I was able to work with the lawyer instructors in various workshops where the attendees practiced how to do it. On Tuesday…