DEALING WITH COMMONLY HELD JUROR BIAS IN JURY SELECTION

DEALING WITH COMMONLY HELD JUROR BIAS IN JURY SELECTION

People and jurors have commonly held beliefs that are in conflict with our issues in our cases. After decades of the national Chamber  of Commerce, big business and insurance industry propaganda against tort litigation and plaintiff trial attorneys, we can assume that all jurors  have been tainted to one extent or another with anti tort bias. Given the political fighting over immigration, we can assume that representing an immigrant, especially an undocumented one, has issues as does representing Muslims. Then…

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THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON & ADMITTING I MADE A MISTAKE

THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON & ADMITTING I MADE A MISTAKE

I admit I make a mistake by relying upon Dragon diction and failing to monitor the dictated material. The result: embarrassing substituted words like “heirs” when I mean “errors” and lots of them, It was negligent of me and I am sorry. That’s what happens  when you are leaving on a trip to Europe and prepare  several posts in advance for scheduled publication while gone, but not having the responsibility to proof read them. I was shocked when I read…

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IN WEAKNESS THERE IS POWER ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ADMIT OUR MISTAKES

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IN WEAKNESS THERE IS POWER ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ADMIT OUR MISTAKES

The Bible has something to say about weakness. “But He said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness… Therefore, I am content with weakness… For when I’m weak, that I’m strong. 2 Cor 12. But the power and weakness  is beyond the Biblical teaching and plays an important role in persuasion and advocacy. For example, marketing expert Trey Ryder has written an article “Admit a Negative to vastly Increase your Credibility.” He says…

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