By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: The issue of “fake news” has been in the news — the actual news — a lot lately. The ease and speed of sharing via social networks has made it common for fake stories to be accepted, trusted, and passed around. One story, for example, tells of Trump protestors being […]
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: I recently finished sitting in on a three-week trial, and throughout the testimony, many of the experts were led through their direct. One expert in particular, the other side’s expert thankfully, made it through her entire direct examination without saying anything other than her name, “Yes,” and “That’s correct.” Even on
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: America’s new president-elect may see a courtroom before he moves into the oval office. While the Defense has filed a motion to delay in order to allow time for settlement, the trial in a lawsuit by former Trump University students is currently scheduled to begin in San Diego on November 28th. In a recent
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: 2016 will be remembered as the year the polls and the pundits were wrong. After enjoying a relatively clear lead in the polls throughout the election, and being predicted as the winner by previously credible poll aggregators like the Huffpolster and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog, and after the majority of talking
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: We have finally, some would say ‘mercifully,’ arrived at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. But not before one last surprise: Just eleven days before election day, and as millions of Americans were already voting early, FBI Director James Comey notified Congress of the discovery of additional emails that “appear to
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: It usually happens about five minutes into a corporate defense opening statement: the “good company” story. Jurors will hear about the history, moral commitments, and good works that this company does within the community. This “Corporate Social Responsibility” or “CSR” message is a staple for some attorneys, but does it really
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Witnesses who are new to the demands of deposition or trial testimony sometimes have the misperception that testifying is just a matter of getting past each question as it comes. Seeing it as a kind of a quiz, the witness thinks the examining attorney just has a collection of questions, each one
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Have you ever had the same advertisement chase you around the internet? So you looked at that new suitcase once, and now it is popping up on every page you view. That effect is one part of our current world, where marketers and other persuaders seem to know more and more
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Every lawyer who has ever met with a witness to prepare that person for testimony has probably stressed the ability to be calm and focused while testifying. And after meeting with a great many future witnesses over the years, it’s possible to arrive at the feeling that some witnesses have that ability and
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By Dr. Ken Broda Bahm: Some computer scientists recently had to get creative about creativity. The researchers (Jordanous & Keller, 2016), from the Universities of Kent and Sussex in the UK, have been looking at computer-based intelligence, and specifically the ways computers can be assessed as exhibiting creative behaviors or not. Of course, that is what makes
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