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Samuel Leibowitz
Samuel Leibowitz August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978 While reading an article in Thursday’s New York Times (4/4/13),I flashed back forty years deep into my public defender days. Alabama lawmakers voted to issue posthumous pardons to the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers, who were wrongly convicted of rape more than 80 years ago based [...]
Practice: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo The cliches roll off the tongue when someone says the word “practice”: “Practice makes perfect” “Practice makes the master” “Practice is everything” “Perfect practice makes perfect” “In theory there is no [...]
“So God Made A Farmer”
Paul Harvey died in 2009, but despite that infirmity, he won the last Superbowl. Well not exactly, but he had the best commercial. Chrysler used his speech about American farmers given in 1978 as the soundtrack for a Dodge Ram commercial. This dramatic moving speech was a perfect prose-poem. But the part I am interested in [...]
The Business of Persuasion (Part 3)
I started this blog because I wanted a forum and a reason to put my ideas in some comprehensible form and on paper (or at least the electronic version). I knew the rigors of this discipline would force me to vigorously examine my ideas and in turn enhance my skills. This set of blogs on [...]
Update: The FIU College of Law Trial Advocacy Program
Update: The FIU College of Law Trial Advocacy Program has scheduled a second presentation by Tom Mesereau at The Metro Justice Building this coming Friday, February 8, 2013. So for busy lawyers who can’t make it out to the FIU campus, here is a wonderful opportunity to take in the event. Friday February 8, 2013 [...]
FIU Law Trial Advocacy Program
The FIU College of Law Trial Advocacy Program is presenting the second in their Storytelling Series lectures this Thursday, February 7, 2013. This is an essential event for trial lawyers, and I recommend you don’t miss this opportunity. The Storytelling Series is another great program developed by director H.T. Smith and assistant director Scott Fingerhut. [...]
The Business of Persuasion (Part 2)
This is a continuation of my thesis that business books on persuasion, selling and marketing are the almost perfect guidebooks for trial lawyers. This is not to mean one must slavishly follow every principle set forth in these books. They have great ideas which must be adjusted for our use. We are not presenting in [...]
The Business of Persuasion
Do you want to be a good speaker? Do you want to give memorable closing arguments? Do you want to give exciting public speeches? It can be done, but only through “blood, sweat and tears.” Persuasive speaking is not a god-given talent but a skill that can be mastered just like so many other aspects [...]