Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Pressuring Potential Jurors in Voir Dire Can Backfire at Trial

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  Time after time, what I discover in jury debriefings is that jurors don’t like being “interrogated” during voir dire. They don’t mind bein...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Win Your Case by Winning Client Cooperation!

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  It’s often said that the practice of law would be great if it weren’t for clients. Clients, of course, are what drive your business, so li...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Want to Win? Start Off On The Right Foot With Prospective Jurors

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  When prospective jurors walk into the courtroom, they only know one thing for sure: the courtroom is His/Her Honor’s private reserve, and ...
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 ...