Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

Netflix has a new program  featuring David Letterman interviewing prominent people,  “My Next Guest Is”.  https://www.netflix.com/title/80209096  I watched the interview with President. Barack Obama and was struck by the contrast of communication skills between the interviewer, David Letterman, and the guest. Obama is an extraordinarily gifted communicator. He is poised, self-confident and has impeccable timing with the gift of articulate communication. Trial lawyers should study him as a model for improved communication skills. Letterman presented a distracting interviewer from my…

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Dr. Frank Luntz is a nationally known communication expert and an adviser to the Republican Party.  His book Words that Work was an encyclopedia of the importance oof framing and the words we used to present issues. His book Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business From Ordinary to Extraordinary also has communication principles which are applicable to us in our trial work. Here are  a few of them for your consideration: adversity:  Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz has said “I don’t…

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Over the past few years we have been continually reminded of the importance of telling a story in presenting our cases to jurors. Most of us do not need any convincing in that regard. There are lawyers, however, that assume it is a simple concept, but do a poor job of implementing it. Here’s a refresher on  the art of story telling. To start with, why storytelling? Because our brains are formed genetically in a way in which telling stories…

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