Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Want Powerful Testimony? Adopt the Power-Sit

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  Witnesses are nervous enough already at the thought of testifying. Being loaded down with 10 body-language directives from well-meaning at...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Don’t Let the Curse of Knowledge Nuke You at Trial!

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  Jurors will not find for what they don’t understand. Simple, right? Yet laying your case out in such a way that jurors readily understand ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Who Wants A Perceived Liar On The Stand? Not You!

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  People aren’t very good at detecting liars. Studies show that people’s hit rate for detecting lies (54%) is slightly above pure chance (5...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Put “Truthiness” To Work For You At Trial

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  The value of visuals in trial work is well established, in that images emphasize and clarify testimony or evidence. However, research sho...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Do You Like Me?

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  Likeability shouldn’t matter in the courtroom. A lawyer’s personality should be irrelevant. The facts should be paramount, the only thing ...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

The Enduring, Maddening CSI Effect

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In my ongoing research of what jurors think and how they decide cases, I read umpteen blogs, tweets and more authored by those who have serv...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Can Visuals Interfere With Your Argument/Testimony?

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  Our world has become a ‘world-in-pictures’ with virtually everythi ng translated into a visual format, or at the very least, accompanied b...