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As you’ve seen from the challenges, there is much we can learn from courtroom trials . Complaints, objections, and the skillful use of...

Trial attorneys have to indulge their curiosity long before we reach the courtroom. We have to start during the discovery process, asking...

I’ve always been a good girl. When I was in high school, my parents let me take the Volvo station wagon out at night, but I was under...

When we started the 30 Days of Trials Challenge, school had just begun and everyone was easing into new schedules after a long (HOT)...

“God could have made us stone creatures, tree creatures, sea creatures, winged creatures, but God made us speech creatures instead. Human...

I don’t win my cases with arguments. In any given trial, the opportunities to argue are few, and they often happen outside the presence...

Has anyone every told you to “use your voice”? You know it’s important. You want to use your voice. The why is clear. If you don’t...

With all this talk about objections, it’s important to remember that you don’t have to spend your life looking for them. Here’s the...

We all have to be able to overcome objections as well. Other people are bound to object to what you do, or how you do it. They object,...

Today I want to talk about learning to object. I give entire keynotes on this topic, and it has a full chapter in my book, so this is...

You want it all . So do I. We want to be successful, whatever that means to us. We want our families to be successful. We want more...

TRIAL DAY 1-HANDLE COMPLAINTS In civil cases, we start with Complaints. The injured person files a Complaint listing all of the ways...

Doesn’t September feel a little bit like a new beginning? New notebooks, new schedules, and with the kids in new classes with new...

It’s time for a challenge. I’m a trial lawyer, but you face trials every day as well. Another word for trial is test, and in the...

What did you think of the Eagles pre-season game? What did you bring for lunch today? Do you prefer Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts? If you...

When you were young, you were naturally curious. It’s how you learned everything you know. Curiosity is what taught you to walk, to...

Perspective changes everything. Better sales, better relationships, better negotiating skills, and better choices all stem from changing...

When you fail to make decisions, you fail. While you torture yourself over what to do next, someone else has done the next thing, right...

Research shows that successful people make more choices and are more decisive. The more you do something, the better you get at it, so...

Today you will choose. You’ll choose a friend, a partner, a doctor, a lawyer, a babysitter, or a date. How do you make these choices–and...