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What if you could hang out with trial lawyers and jury consultants, ask them about connecting with clients and juries more effectively; then take strategies, tactics, and insights to increase your success? That's what we do each week on Trial Lawyer Prep.
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How to Get Better Feedback From Your Focus Groups [Ep 175] (opens the original)
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Make your next focus group actually reveal the weaknesses, blind spots, and sticky points in your case, before the defense does! Long, compound questions will kill the conversation. Keep the flow moving with shorter prompts. Silence is one of the most useful tools you have when you want honest reactions instead of rehearsed answers. These are just some of the detailed tips we cover in today's episode, which helps you make the most of a focus group to get accurate, realistic data and feedback. Th
Focus Groups Before Discovery: Vishal Shah on Case Development Strategy [Ep 174] (opens the original)
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How does a small law firm evaluate whether to conduct a focus group? The expense, the planning and organization, the time it takes: the stakes feel higher when you have a more nimble organization. Vishal Shah is a plaintiff-side employment lawyer in Boston, MA, who left big law to open his own boutique firm in 2023. He thus knows first-hand the importance of balancing the bottom line and making smart choices for how his firm operates. And he's here to tell you: you rarely get a better bang for y
Trial Prep Under Pressure: 3 Days to a $3.4M Verdict [Ep 173] (opens the original)
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Perhaps a short trial can be better? When you had planned for a five day trial, and then the first morning in the courtroom, the judge announces that the case will be completed in three days. Hard stop. No exceptions. Is it a scramble and a panic? Or maybe, could it be a blessing? In this day and age especially, the last thing we want to do is bore our jurors, throw too much information at them and expect them to keep up. Attention spans are shorter and people are easily distracted, but even whe
Identify a Judge's Trial Persona Before you Walk into the Courtroom [Ep 172] (opens the original)
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Judge rules can make or break your trial, and most lawyers are looking at the wrong document first. If you are headed to trial, this episode shows why the judge's trial rules, schedule, and persona matter more than simply memorizing jury instructions. I talk about how a trial consultation exposed major surprises in a judge's courtroom procedures, including half-day sessions, skipped Fridays, limited jury-selection time, and strict expectations that could completely reshape the order of proof, wi
AI During Trial: Jury & Verdict. Part Two with Michelle Gessner [Ep 171] (opens the original)
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In our last episode, we learned about Michelle Gessner's recent trial in North Carolina, where she was forced to pivot from a regular audio/video presentation, using modern technology, to a courtroom with no microphones, no TVs, no projectors and a single power outlet (already claimed by the clerk and the court reporter!). Click here to catch Episode 170 and hear the back story for today's episode. Michelle used AI to help adapt to this unexpected turn of events, asking it how to craft a visual
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