Big business and big corporations manipulate science to their own profits

Big business and big corporations manipulate science to their own profits

The National Law Journal of July 23rd has an article entitled "Manipulating Science" by Jon Haber. It is worth reading. Haber correctly begins by saying "Corporations will stop at nothing to make and protect their profits, even when they put America lives at risk. Then, when they are shown to be knowingly marketing dangerous products, they typically employ every possible tactic to avoid accountability." How true in my experience over almost fifty years of law practice suing big business and…

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Trial and theater

Trial and theater

There is so much to learn from theater if we are to be great trial lawyers. Here is a sampling of thoughts. It starts with actors quotes which have meaning for trial lawyers include the following: Marlon Brando said:"Acting in general, is something most people think they’re incapable of but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I’ve ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don’t or trying to hide something….

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Nlp techniques and the nlp eye accessing chart for trial lawyers

Nlp techniques and the nlp eye accessing chart for trial lawyers

Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) was developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. It is a set of models ofcommunication and is a collection of tools rather then an overall theory. Itis not only a technique to improve our mental processing and interpersonal relationships but, in addition, is a wonderful aid to trial lawyers. Take as an example the "eye accessing" cues which is a methodproviding some insight as to whether the speaker is "making it up" or trying to remember…

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