Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

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…

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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…

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Mark Rothko was a famous American painter. In 2007, one of his paintings, painted by him in 1950, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house for a record $73 million dollars. Previous sales of his paintings were in the millions as well. His paintings hang in museums all over the world. People placed a value in the millions on some canvas and paint in a frame. The total value of the materials was very likely a small sum, so why would…

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