Trial lawyers have to be risk takers if they are going to be great trial lawyers. It can sometimes be frightening and intimidating. How we react to our fears determines how well we represent our clients. In the book The Airmen and the Headhunters author Judith Heimann quotes a pilot of a bomber shot down in World War II as saying that during dangerous flying missions he had often been frightened. But he went on to say: "provided you don’t…
Those of you who have gone through training at the Trial Lawyers College http://www.triallawyerscollege.com/created by Gerry Spence, or who have attended any regional meetings of the the College, know about psychodrama. Originally developed by Jacob L. Moreno, psychodrama involves exploring emotional issues through acting out the situation. Participants assume roles and it is conducted so as to put into action life experience issues in order to understand them and deal with them. Re-enactments and role playing under the supervision of…
Last Friday James Rogers and I co-chaired a seminar for the Washington State Trial Lawyers, who have voted to change their name to Washington State Association for Justice. In addition to James and myself we had talented lawyers speak who included Virginia DeCosta and Craig Sims from Seattle; Randi McGinn and Carl Bettinger from New Mexico; Terry O’Reilly from California and Jim Gilbert from Colorado. It was a wonderful seminar on a variety of subjects. Here a few of the…