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•  Plaintiff Magazine - April, 2010 (read article)
How to maximize the impact of cross-examination
A jury consultant offers tips on cross-examination to help you persuade the jury and avoid alienating them.
•  The Jury Expert - March, 2010 (read article)
Goals Of Witness Preparation: From A Trial Consultant’s Point Of View
•  Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Live Communication I Learned From Konstantin Stanislavski: Common Mistakes and Best Practices - November 2009
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•  The ASTC Conference 2009 - Update - June, 2009
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•  In the Trial Consultant’s Seat - November, 2008 (read article)
The importance of eye contact
In a courtroom, eye contact is the big litmus test for credibility, believability and likability.
 
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•  Plaintiff Magazine - September, 2008 (read article)
Trial Practice, Practice, Practice
Tips on exercises to prepare for your courtroom performance — they really work!
•  Advocate - July, 2008 (read article)
Making your client a stellar witness: A step-by- step guide to deposition witness preparation
•  Plaintiff Magazine - February, 2008 (read article)
Costuming for the courtroom
•  National Institute for Trial Advocacy - 2008 (read article)
Preparing Child Witnesses – A Primer in Compassion
•  Plaintiff Magazine - October, 2007 (read article)
Can this witness be saved from the “Magic List”?
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Legal Insights & Interesting Reads
 
•  Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy by Brent E. Newton
•  How to Write: A Memorandum from a Curmudgeon, Chapter 1 by Mark Herrmann
•  Witness Preparation: What Is Ethical, and What Is Not By Elaine Lewis
•  Five Myths About Social Media for Attorneys By Amy DeLouise
•  The Temptation to Tweet – Jurors’ Activities Outside the Trial By Michael Bromby
•  Acting lessons for lawyers. By Nora Lockwood Tooher of LawyersUSA
•  Warning: Anything you say can be used against you on TV. By Ernest Teitell and Susan Heller
•  PUBLIC RESPECT AND TRUST. How to Restore and Deserve It. By David Ball, Ph.D.
•  Lights! Action! Litigate! By David Henry Dolkas
•  How to Build a Mediation Presentation That Will Make an Insurance Adjuster’s Sphincter Tighten.
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•  How We Support Our False Beliefs
•  1936 Esquire: Attorney for the Defense by Clarence Darrow
•  The Wolf Was Framed! Little Red was no victim by Diane F. Wyzga
•  Finding Fear: Neuroscientists Locate Where It Is Stored In The Brain
•  In opening a case, grab the jurors' attention By Douglas S. Lavine
•  The Female Factor By Tresa Baldas
•  How Jurors Use Emotional Information to Decide Cases By Richard Gabriel
•  ANCHORS and FRAMES and THEMES (Oh My) By Eric Oliver
•  Sometimes Truthfulness Doesn't Matter ... But Meaning Always Does
•  Study: Juror Questions, Limits on Lawyer Presentations Enhance Jury Trial Process
•  Haiku Nation.  Words few, hard-hitting.  So participatory.  Mini-lit is hot.  (Submitted by Thomas S. Boothe)
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•  Acting out contributes to brain health as we age, study shows
•  FICTION 101: A primer for lawyers on how to use fiction writing techniques to write persuasive facts sections
•  The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory
•  Reading Shakespeare Has Dramatic Effect On Human Brain
•  The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
•  Much ado over Shakespearean theater find
•  Whom Do We Fear Or Trust?
 
 
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•  Why the Law? By Linda Northrup
 
 
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