by: Dr. Ken Broda Bahm No, I’m not talking about a breach of decorum that could end with a quick trip to jail. I’m talking about strategy. To understand what I mean by a disruptive trial strategy, imagine a typical juror who walks into a courtroom wrapped in attitudes and experiences that she has built […]
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by: Dr. Ken Broda Bahm Your expert witness is on the stand as cross begins. Where he previously was clear, confident, and informative with you in direct, he is now simply saying “yes,” and “that’s right” to a series of statements made by opposing counsel. “So you agree that my company completed years of testing
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by: Dr. Ken Broda Bahm Chances are you’ve now heard of “Twitter” in which groups of online friends stay in touch by frequently sending short – 140 character – electronic answers to the question “what are you doing now?” Twitter leapt into the legal consciousness mainly because some users started sending “tweets” reading something like, “I’m sitting
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by: Dr. Ken Broda Bahm From a lawyer’s eye view, it is often a matter of arguing, convincing, and proving with evidence. But from a juror’s eye view, it may well be a matter of wading through an unfamiliar lexical landscape in order to comprehend enough to make a responsible and respectable decision. The
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