Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

Philip N. Meyer is a professor  of law at Vermont Law School.  He Emailed me about a book he has written, Storytelling for Lawyers published by Oxford Press. I have not had the opportunity of reading his book, however the table of contents shows a comprehensive list of subjects about storytelling. I recommend any well written book on this important  subject. Clearly storytelling is an essential tool for trial lawyers.  The  Spence  Trial College teaches storytelling http://www.triallawyerscollege.org/. Learning  how to…

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The American Journal of Trial Advocacy is published by the Cumberland school of law, Samford University. I highly recommend the publication for plaintiff trial lawyers. The subscription is a modest $24 per year: Contact them at jtrialad@samford.edu. The summer 2013 issue has an article by Edward D. Ohlaum “Authentic Advocacy: Lawyering with Character.” Some of his observations I thought repeating were these. Aristotle taught that there were three means of effecting persuasion. “The man who is to be in command…

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Edward Burkley and Darshon Anderson published an informative article “Using the Science of Persuasion in the Courtroom” in Persuasion Research. Among the research conclusions they discussed where these. Research showed that if people who are asked to think of reasons to support a position and have difficulty generating ways to do so, they are likely to perceive the idea as a bad idea. Therefore, the authors say, by asking the jury to think of some ways (no more than three…

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