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Day 6.
Phillips et al v Trimac et al

https://www.jhpii.com/stirring-the-potts/8-basics-5-senses

8 Basics 5 of 8 - Senses — JHPII At trial you want to take hold of your jurors’ attention and keep it. You want jurors to feel what you want them to feel - empowered to right a wrong - inspired to reach a just verdict a case like yours requires. To do that your trial must be based on facts (See JHPII Talks re “Facts”).

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8 Basics 4 of 8 - Scenes — JHPII Trying your case is like recreating scenes that show, rather than tell, your story. Think of your trial as a series of sequential story boards. Pictures on those boards created with words and witnesses and voicemails and emails and papers and ledgers and medical appliances and policies and procedure

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8 Basics 3 of 8 - Words — JHPII Good trial lawyers sound like people. Not like lawyers. At trial you want to be calm, relaxed and in complete control. To be calm, relaxed and in complete control you must be confident in what you are about to do. To be confident in what you are about to do, you must practice. While all hell may bre

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8 Basics 2 of 8 - Facts — JHPII Facts are much more than “the placenta tore away from the uterine wall,” or “this ambulance company overcharged the government by over $8,000,000,” or “the light was red.” Systemic and systems-based issues – why this happened – and the pain that what happened here caused - are oft-ti...

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8 Basics 1/8 - General to Specific — JHPII General to specific. For instance, you may want to begin your opening something like this. “I’d like to take you back to January 3, 2018. Wednesday. 3 that afternoon. Here in New York. E Harlem. Metropolitan Hospital Center. Labor and delivery Dept. A patient . . .” General to Specific. Or thi...

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Begin With Your End In Mind — JHPII Setting out on a journey without knowing where you're going creates fear, uncertainty, and increased risk. As a trial lawyer when you take a case, you must begin with your end in mind. You must decide at the outset what you want to see happen - how you want your case to end. To begin with your end i

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Stay Fierce — JHPII You’re standing in the middle of the courtroom. It’s hot. You feel the perspiration start to bead a little on your temples. Your collar is starting to feel a bit damp too. You just spent the last 3 days picking a jury.

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Focus On Your Path — JHPII When preparing your case for trial, focus on your path. It’s no different from focusing on your path in the forest. You chose your path through the forest because it will take you where you want to go.

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