I’m teaching this week at the Spence Trial College in Wyoming so I only have time for a brief thought. A trial lawyer friend had a bad result and we had an email discussion about why his focus study was inconnsistent with the verdict. Here are my comments to him. Focus studies are like computers – garbage in and you get garbage out. A true mock jury presentation is probably the most dangerous for getting wrong information because of the rule…
I’m leaving for the Spence Trial College on Sunday for my week of teaching there, so I have only time for a short post. Let me share a couple of recent E-mails to fellow plaintiff trial lawyers on several different subjects. The first one deals with my view about a failure many plaintiff lawyers have – the desire to be liked by everyone and the fear of being disliked. So, here’s my take for your consideration: "The goal of great…
The Wyoming Trial Lawyers’ Association held their annual meeting in Jackson in June of this year. I was privileged to be invited to speak. The convention materials were very informative. Here are a couple of excerpts from two of the convention papers. David Bossart Fargo, North Dakota provided a paper entitled Law, Lawyers & Listening, What do they have in Common. He quotes from the book Listen Up by Larry Barker, Ph.D. and Kittie Watson, Ph.D., St. Martin’s Press, New…