Thursday, March 30, 2023

How Your Emotions Can Help You Win Your Case

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  The question of whether to trust our logic or trust our emotions is rarely brought up in the context of legal matters, at least not from t...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Get Those Undecideds On Your Side: With Jury Instructions

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Despite the best efforts of all involved, jury instructions remain obscure and confusing to all but the most legalese-savvy jurors. Cases sh...
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 ...