Why not apply for the College this year. If you are fortunate enough to attend you will find that the you who completed the course is not the same person who started it. A transformation into a real human being will have taken place. Not only that, the new you is a far better trial lawyer then the old one. If you attend, introduce yourself to me when I show up to teach there. I look forward to seeing you….
I have just returned from Hawaii where I took a deposition of my client because he has a fatal lung cancer and I wanted to perpetuate something of him by way of video deposition. Here is the basic outline I prepared, however the client has a tracheotomy and is unable to speak. He also has a serious hearing problem, both the result of over radiation for a head tumor. He is in bed at home and the only way to…
In 1985 Courtroom Communication Strategies by Lawrence J. Smith and Loretta A. Malandro was Published by Kluwer law book publishers Inc. When it was published I read this book cover to cover and yellow highlined it plus dictated an outline because it was the single most compressive collection of communication principles I’d found. Even today, this book remains as valid as when it was published because human nature hasn’t changed. While I believe it is out of print copies are…