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Using scene-setting to persuade the decisionmakers, and to get the client to open up to the lawyer.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Often I feel an ill-placed center of gravity sought or accepted by too many judges. Of course judges bear the brunt of overloaded dockets and postponed cases by at best feeling like a grocery store cashier with never-ending lines of customers mixed in with inconsiderate and unaware people cutting in the line to ask where to find the store-brand wax beans. However, the center of gravity ?- too often topped by a black hole ?- too often set or accepted by too many judges is to move the case along, too often at the expense of getting enough of the evidence, law and case to the judge and jury, and thus sacrificing justice.   The trial lawyer?s challenge is to get the center of gravity and balance to the side of justice, even if that means using some centrifugal force at first to overcome the misplaced center of gravity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).