Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

I’ve just finished Cracking the Code by Thom Hartmann. The book deals with the science and technology of effective communications. The book is an excellent summary of various communication concepts including Neural Linguistic Programing, framing issues and other basics. One example I thought interesting was the way he starts his talks in order to reach visual, auditory and kinesthetic listeners: "I want to talk to you today about stories that we tell ourselves, the way we view the world, and…

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The Seattle PI of July 1, 2008has an article about the arguments in the federal trial by the City of Seattle against the Sonic basketball group. This is what it reports about an exchange between Judge Pechman and Paul Lawrence for the City: Judge: Mr. Lawrence, answer my question Lawrence: I’m trying to Judge: Did the mayor ever call Mr. Bennett back and say let’s sit down, let’s talk about this and see what we can do? Lawrence: The mayor……

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Malcom Gladwell’s book Blink about how choices are made explained the workings of the unconscious mind process. It demonstrated how we form our opinions and make our decisions at a level we are not even conscious about and can’t intellectually access. Now there is a report of a study which dealt with scanning the brains of people making simple decisions. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (June 27, 2008) scientists discovered that brain appears to make a…

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