Have you thought what pain really means? When our clients talk about their pain what do we understand about what they are going through? Here are fewbrief ideas about what pain really is: Nazis: when nazis wanted a man to talk they didn’t take his house, or his investment portfolio or confiscate his pension- they took his fingernails Sacrifice anything to avoid pain: We are willing to sacrifice anything to avoid pain. A mother would hock her wedding ring to…
In preparing for jury selection in a medical products liability case, I started by creating an outline of things I wanted to keep in mind.I did this early in the preparation process in order to keep me focused.My goal was to keep the concepts brief and on a single sheet of paper. Here is the start of the outline which was then refined as the preparation progressed. This isoffered as simply an example of how one can do this in…
I’ve posted on this blog before about how important framing is for trial lawyers when it comes to the issues in a case. What we call it and how we refer to it can create an immediate reaction to the issue. That’s what framing is all about. This is not something new. For over eight years during the Bush administration we read and heard about how important it was for Karl Rove and Frank Luntz to figure out how to…