Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

Eric Oliver has been a trial consultant since the 1980’s. His consulting business is MetaSystems of Canton, Michigan www.eric-oliver.com. His latest book is Persuasive Communications: 25 Years of Teaching Lawyers. Eric publishes a news letter News From the Mental Edge and this last issue has articles I enjoyed reading. Here are a few thoughts taken at random from the issue. In an article about spotting lies, Neely Tucker quotes Dr. Paul Ekman, who has spent his life studying non verbal…

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Today I want to share two more "rules" for communication. The first deals with how you should strart your story to the jury and the second deals with the order or sequence of telling your story. Here are some thoughts for you to consider: START THE STORY WITH THE DEFENDANT & NOT THE PLAINTIFF When a series of focus studies were done across the country the outcome confirmed what was already an accepted fact. That fact is that people apply…

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I read an interesting article: Who is the Lawyer of the Century by Gerald F. Uelmen, Professor of Law, Santa Clara Univesity  http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v33-issue2/uelman.pdf The author discusses a number of lawyers who might qualify including Gerry Spence. When Spence was asked who he would select, the author says:    "While Spence does not believe in reincarnation,he certainly believes in heroes, and Darrow is his rolemodel. He points to Darrow’s passion for justice for the underdog and championing the causes of the common…

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