Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

The newspaper reports that during the lawsuit by the City of Seattle against the Sonic’s basketball organization the following question was asked on cross examination by the lawyer for the city: Q.You understoodthe risk that you would be sitting here today without a new building, without a renegotiated lease, with a lease that obligatesyou to perform through the 2009-2020 season, a lease under which there over $20 million a year operating losses at the time you signed this assumption document,…

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Karl Rove brought to perfection for the Bush administration the framing of actions in a way they would be receptive. For example "The Clean Air Act" allowed businesses to pollute. The "Healthy Forest Act" allowed the logging industry to clear cut indiscriminately. The proposed "Clean Ocean Act" would allow free oil drilling with the potential to pollute our waters. George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has written extensively about framing and metaphors. We know, as…

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Actor Kirk Douglas has written his ninth book Let’s Face It age 90 years. It is an entertaining book. One thing he wrote struck me as a lesson for trial lawyers. He says when he gives a speech he always starts out telling the audience he has had a stroke. As a result, he tells them, he has to speak slowly to be understood. However, he goes on, he’s found that when he does speak slowly people listen because they…

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