• Prepare like your client’s life depends on it. In most of our cases, our client’s future does depend on the outcome of the case. Prepare so that you have no regrets and you know you took no shortcuts. The business attorneys work within a law for business setting, usually representing larger businesses.
Your client needs to understand that their job at trial is not to tell their whole story, or be angry, or fight with opposing counsel, or prove that they are smarter than opposing counsel. In fact, those things can lose the case. Instead, your client needs to understand that she or he is there to help the jury understand what happened and to see the right thing to do. The jury won’t want to help the plaintiff if he or she is defensive or combative.
• Go watch others try their cases. It’s amazing what you can learn from watching a trial done poorly and from a trial that is well executed. It’s one of those things – you really do know good and bad when you see them. Also, go watch jury selection and trials in your judge’s
• Prepare like your client’s life depends on it. In most of our cases, our client’s future does depend on the outcome of the case. Prepare so that you have no regrets and you know you took no shortcuts.
Your client needs to understand that their job at trial is not to tell their whole story, or be angry, or fight with opposing counsel, or prove that they are smarter than opposing counsel. In fact, those things can lose the case. Instead, your client needs to understand that she or he is there to help the jury understand what happened and to see the right thing to do. The jury won’t want to help the plaintiff if he or she is defensive or combative.
• Go watch others try their cases. It’s amazing what you can learn from watching a trial done poorly and from a trial that is well executed. It’s one of those things – you really do know good and bad when you see them. Also, go watch jury selection and trials in your judge’s courtroom. This is a very important thing to do.
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