The Trial Practice Tips Weblog

An Expert-Related Practice Tip from My Book Deposition Checklists and Strategies

This is just one of the many practice tips that you'll find liberally scattered throughout the eight chapters of my book, Deposition Checklists and Strategies (James Publishing):

§4:255 Practice Tip: What the Expert Did Not Do Remember to ask the expert not only what he did to prepare himself to render an opinion, but what he didn’t do. Of course, you cannot come right out and ask, “Please tell me what you failed to do in rendering an opinion.”

Instead, ask the expert whether he did or didn’t do specific things.

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Breaking News about . . . Metaphors?

From The Persuasive Litigator: Use Metaphors to Touch Your Fact Finders, by Dr. Ken Broda-Bah--

[A] team composed of specialists in neurology, psychology, and rehabilitative medicine at Emory University have recently looked at the curious ability of some metaphoric language to be processed not just in the speech regions in the brain, but in those associated with bodily action as well.

Read the full post for some interesting thoughts about "llitigation uses of tactile metaphoric language."

First Drafts Made Easy

Having trouble getting started? You'll find a number of tips for writing first drafts in my article "First Drafts Made Easy," originally published in the Illinois Bar Journal.