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Whistleblowers, Remember Credibility is Still Part of the Story

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: What started with an anonymous whistleblower report regarding President Trump’s pressure on the government of Ukraine to investigate his political opponents has blossomed into a parade of witnesses testifying in a soon-to-be public House impeachment inquiry. So, who was this whistleblower? A lot of people really want to know. Kentucky […]

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Defendants, Include a “Here’s What You Haven’t Heard” in Your Opening Statement Introduction

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: The law allows counsel on the other side to deliver their opening statement first, so they get the early opportunity to tell you their story. But, there are two sides to every story. And, despite all you have heard, I encourage you to keep an open mind…  That is a

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Expect that Our Romance with Tech Companies Might Be Over

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: On a recent series of flights, I watched “Valley of the Boom,” an unconventional but highly- entertaining miniseries focusing on all of the shenanigans that accompanied the early 1990’s Silicon Valley technology boom and bust. It was a time when the public and investors alike were fascinated by the bright

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For Immediacy, Use Active Voice (but for Abstraction, Passive Voice Can Be Used)

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: You probably learned it in one of your earliest writing classes: Active voice means the grammatical subject is doing the acting, and passive voice means the subject is acted upon. It is the difference between “The dog bit the boy” (active), and “The boy was bitten by the dog” (passive).

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Train Your Witness to Combat Simplistic Equivalence

By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: God is Love Love is Blind Stevie Wonder is Blind Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God That’s an exaggerated version of a kind of fallacious thinking that is often used in witness examination. It is a form of the “transitive property” in logic, If A=B, and B=C, then A=C. This idea, however, is

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