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THE TOOL OF PSYCHODRAMA FOR PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS

May 14, 2018 Paul Luvera Comments 0 Comment

More than twenty years ago I first taught at the Trial College College created by Gerry Spence and conducted in Wyoming. It was there that I met Dr. John Nolte from Connecticut. He was trained as a psychologist and became involved in the Mareno Institute where he was educated in psychodrama. John was the certified psychodrama conductor at the ranch and was extremely gifted in its use. The lawyer students were immediately introduced to psychodrama and personally experienced it as…

JUST BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE LYRICS DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN SING

May 3, 2018 Paul Luvera Comments 0 Comment

Starting in 1945 in Nuremberg, Germany twenty two major Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes. Judges from the Allied Powers – Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States presided. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Hans Krebs and Joseph Goebbels had all committed suicide in the spring of 1945 to avoid capture. When the trial ended in 1946 twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. Hermann Goring was considered the most important of those on trial….

UNDERSTANDING WHY JURORS WANT TO BLAME THE INJURED PLAINTIFF

April 20, 2018 Paul Luvera Comments 0 Comment

Tom Wolfe, in his book The Right Stuff, described how military pilots reacted when a fellow pilot was killed during test flights. He wrote: “The other pilots shook their heads and said it was a damned shame, but he should have known better than to wait so long before lowering the flaps.” When another friend was killed after climbing and then diving straight into the bay, they said “How could anybody fail to check his hose connections? And how could…