A $50 MILLION DOLLAR CUP OF TEA & THE $2 & 3 BILLION DOLLAR JURY VERDICTS

A $50 MILLION DOLLAR CUP OF TEA & THE $2 & 3 BILLION DOLLAR JURY VERDICTS

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On February 8th this year, twenty-five-year-old delivery driver Michael Garcia pulled into a Starbucks drive-through in Southern Los Angeles and ordered three cups of hot tea. The Starbucks barista passed the order to him through the window in a cardboard drink carrier. The Starbucks security camera shows that within less than two seconds, an improperly secured cup in the tray with 180-degree tea toppled over into his lap, causing a second cup to do the same. The tea spill caused…

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CONSIDER NEURO LINQUISTIC PROGRAMING

CONSIDER NEURO LINQUISTIC PROGRAMING

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Trial lawyers should investigate the concepts of NLP. NLP stands for ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’ and has been around since 1970’s when its co-founders, Richard Bandler and John Grinder first modelled the therapists Milton Erickson, Gregory Bateson, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir. Neuro Linguistic Programming enables us to better understand the way our brain (neuro) processes the words we use (linguistic) and how that can impact on our past, present and future (programming). It gives us strategies for dealing with human…

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A SIMPLE SUMMARY OF TRIAL CONCEPTS

A SIMPLE SUMMARY OF TRIAL CONCEPTS

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I was asked my ideas about trial advocacy. How did I view and approach trials was the question. Here was my very simple response to what is admittedly a complex question. Trial Approach. I have for many years stressed to trial lawyers the most important thing they must understand to be great advocates is: “A trial is a battle of impression and not logic.” Decisions are not simply made on the basis of intellectual analysis of the testimony and evidence….

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