Showing posts with label trial attorneys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trial attorneys. Show all posts
Thursday, January 30, 2020

A Simple Technique to Help Jurors Discredit a Lay Witness

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When you’ve had a hand in making a decision, you’re that much more likely to go along with it. Jurors are no different. Questions in...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Overreach and Risk Losing the Case

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Former Boston firefighter Albert Arroyo, called “the poster child for disability pension abuse” by some, was acquitted recently, much to the...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Harness Jurors’ Wandering Minds: New Science

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New research from Harvard University psychologists (Matthew A. Killingsworth & Daniel T. Gilbert) shows that people spend 46.9% of thei...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Handling the Angry Witness

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You’re gearing up for trial, you hardly have the time or patience to deal with an angry witness. Yet there you are, in the unenviable positi...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Not “The Other Side Of The Story,” The Other Story

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It doesn’t matter which side you represent, you must tell a story. For the plaintiff side, this is obvious: there’s a wrong to be righted, a...
Friday, February 5, 2010

How to Help Jurors Discredit the Lay Witness in Cross

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We all cooperate more willingly with decisions we’ve had a hand in making. Jurors in trial are no different. Ask your questions in cross-exa...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

How to Persuade With Jury Instructions

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Jurors polled in focus groups and jury debriefings point out again and again that one of their greatest stumbling blocks at arriving to fair...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Keep Clients Happy by Keeping Them In the Loop

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Every case has its problems; some can be anticipated, others cannot. In their eagerness to maintain their credibility and be effective probl...