Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

When I was two years old, Dale Carnegie published his book How to Win Friends and Influence People. It has remained a classic on human nature and is still popular today. One of his chapters dealt with the fact that people never blame themselves even when they are clearly wrong. One of his examples involved "Two Gun Crowley" a killer who was finally trapped by the police in his girl friend’s apartment in 1931. Surrounded by police Crowley carried on…

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Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) was developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. It is a set of models ofcommunication and is a collection of tools rather then an overall theory. Itis not only a technique to improve our mental processing and interpersonal relationships but, in addition, is a wonderful aid to trial lawyers. Take as an example the "eye accessing" cues which is a methodproviding some insight as to whether the speaker is "making it up" or trying to remember…

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I will teaching this week at the Spence Trial College as I have every year virtually from when it began to now. Gerry created the college in 1994 with an invitation for lawyers to attend and learn to be trial lawyers. He invited some lawyers from around the country to come to Wyoming and act as instructors. I was flattered to be invited to be part of that first year faculty only to have a trial in Oregon run over…

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