Not all pictures are worth 1,000 words
Before you read any further, look at the photo above and ask yourself, “What is the message here?” I can [...]
Article written for and published by the ASTC in Sept. 2016 – Just When You Thought It Was Safe . . .
Just when you thought we had gotten past having to explain Gene Hackman’s unethical behavior as a trial consultant in [...]
More Blending from Voir Dire to Opening
In my Persuasion Tip © “Active listening — from the couch to the courtroom”, I discussed the use of “Topic Boards” in voir dire, [...]
Active listening–from the couch to the courtroom
Reflection, or active listening, is a therapy tool all of us eager psychology grad students learned in Week 1. A [...]
“To be or not to be . . .”
When Shakespeare gave Hamlet his difficult soliloquy, he allowed some people to step back and view the play as a [...]
May your theme be remembered
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” This is rated as one of the top 10 most [...]
Overcoming perfect hindsight
Trials take place because, at some point in the past, the parties each made some sort of decision that altered [...]
Shakespeare just wrote your next opening
The story-telling template is actually older than Shakespeare, timeless in its power, proven over the millennia as a model that [...]
How did your demeanor impress the jury?
Your trial ends. The jurors are released. You ask them their impression of you and your witnesses . . . What would [...]
$61M Settlement
Trial Science conducted several rounds of pre-trial research for Paul Yetter and Collin Cox [of Yetter Coleman based in Houston] in [...]
Not all pictures are worth 1,000 words
Before you read any further, look at the photo above and ask yourself, “What is the message here?” I can [...]
More Blending from Voir Dire to Opening
In my Persuasion Tip © “Active listening — from the couch to the courtroom”, I discussed the use of “Topic Boards” in voir dire, [...]
Active listening–from the couch to the courtroom
Reflection, or active listening, is a therapy tool all of us eager psychology grad students learned in Week 1. A [...]
“To be or not to be . . .”
When Shakespeare gave Hamlet his difficult soliloquy, he allowed some people to step back and view the play as a [...]
May your theme be remembered
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” This is rated as one of the top 10 most [...]
Overcoming perfect hindsight
Trials take place because, at some point in the past, the parties each made some sort of decision that altered [...]
Shakespeare just wrote your next opening
The story-telling template is actually older than Shakespeare, timeless in its power, proven over the millennia as a model that [...]
How did your demeanor impress the jury?
Your trial ends. The jurors are released. You ask them their impression of you and your witnesses . . . What would [...]
Thinking outside (and inside) the box
This Persuasion Tip is very different—more of a “behind the curtain” view of some of the creative processes we use in helping you [...]
Whoever tells the best story wins
I have pushed many of you to the very edge of what you are willing to say to a jury [...]