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• Working With a Professional Trial Consultant To Assist With Witness Preparation by Jessalyn H. Zeigler, Charles G. Jarboe, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. Email Interview with Katherine James
• Emotion In The Courtroom: How To Reach, Persuade and Activate Jurors with Katherine James
• The Jury Wants to Take the Podium – But Even with the Authority to Do So, Can It? by Mitchell J. Frank
• The Neuroscience of Storytelling: How Shifting Facts and Focus Can Affect A Trial by Robyn Wishart
• Unspringing The Witness Memory and Demeanor Trap: What Every Judge And Juror Needs to Know About Cognitive Psychology And Witness Credibility by Mark W. Bennett
• Rhetoric, Advocacy and Ethics: Reflections on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by Stephen Newman
• Show Will Tell: Managing Mental Images with Legal Decision Makers by Eric Oliver
• Why Do We Ask Jurors To Promise That They Will Do the Impossible? by Susan Macpherson
• A.C.T. Alumni Newsletter: Bill Ball At A.C.T. In 1971, As Remembered by Sands Hall
• Reflections on the Fairness of Passion in Advocacy by Marc Garfinkle
• Ethical Issues Raised in Cherry Docs and Tone Clusters Productions at Theatricum Botanicum
• Acquittal: An Insider Reveals the Stories and Strategies Behind Today’s Most Infamous Verdicts by Richard Gabriel
• Fundamental Principles of an Effective Presentation by Dave Dolkas
• Literature’s First Jury Trial by Abraham Meltzer
• Storytelling for Lawyers by Phillip N. Meyer
• More From The #Jury Box: The Latest On Juries and Social Media by Hon. Amy J. St. Eve, Hon. Charles P. Burns, & Michael A. Zuckerman
• Obama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited by George Lakoff
• Systemic Causation and Syria: Obama’s Framing Problem by George Lakoff
• The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains by Leo Widrich
• Gesturing While Talking Influences Thoughts by Jeremy Dean
• American Justice or American Idol? Two Trials and Two Verdicts in the Casey Anthony Case by Richard Gabriel
• 10 Tips For Preparing The Crazy Witness For a Media Frenzied Trial by Katherine James
• Beneath the Robes and Behind Closed Doors: Why Supreme Court Justices Behave as Jurors by Ryan A. Malphurs, Ph.D.
• The Influence of Deceptive Forensic Testimony on Jury Decisions: The CSI Effect by Clint Townson
• Re-Discovering, Honoring and Exploiting Your Fabulously Female Presentation Skills by Katherine James
• Paralegals Are Key in Witness Preparation: A Podcast by Vicki Voisin of Legal Talk Network Featuring Katherine James
• Actors, Lawyers & Audiences by Thomas H. Vidal
• Making Time for Making Art by Katherine James
• To Succeed for Your Client, Think Like Your Client by Joanna Ardalan
• A Journey from Trial Attorney to Author and Beyond by Paul Turk
• Is Yoga Legal?: Understanding Judgment by Rebecca Stahl
• "I Am Divorced… But I’m Still Me: A Child’s View of Divorce" Books by Amie Greenberg, JD, MBA, and Barbara Greenberg, MD
• The Path to a Paper Free Firm by John B. McEntire IV
• Florida Lawyers Bring Big Screen Drama to the Courtroom: How Popular Culture’s Influence on the Law has Created the Need for ‘Professional Witnesses’ by Katherine Lee Klapsa
• Justice Joined by Wilson A. Schooley
• Jury Rig: "The Office" Excerpt by Korey Kaul
• Litigation and Family Don’t Mix by Mark B. Baer, Esq.
• 7 Tips for Writing Novels While Practicing Law By Lisa M. Lilly
• Lighten Up! How Lawyers Can Enhance Their Communication Skills … with Stand-Up Comedy By Nina Kaufman, Esq.
• CDSWOT and PLADSquared: Techniques for Avoiding and Breaking Bad News By Steven E. Perkel & Eric Dakhari
• Damage Anchors on Real Juries By Shari Seidman Diamond, Mary R. Rose, Beth Murphy & John Meixner
• Persuasion Strategies Visual Persuasion Study By Ken Broda-Bahm, Ph.D
• What You Get When You Mix Timelines and George Orwell: Design, Intellectual Honesty and Control
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• The Function of Laughter at the U.S. Supreme Court By Ryan A. Malphurs, Ph.D.
• The Illusion of Truth By Jeremy Dean
• The Privacy Implications of Facebook On Your Life and Practice By Mari J. Frank and Alyssa J. Frank
• Confidence in Sampling: Why Every Lawyer Needs to Know the Number 384 By John G. McCabe, M.A. and Justin C. Mary
• The Reptile Brain, Mammal Heart and (Sometimes Perplexing) Mind of the Juror: Toward a Triune Trial Strategy By Jill P. Holmquist, J.D.
• Sonia Buck’s Sample Chapter Movie Therapy for Law Students
• Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy By Brent E. Newton
• How to Write: A Memorandum from a Curmudgeon, Chapter 1 By Mark Herrmann
• Witness Preparation: What Is Ethical, and What Is Not By Elaine Lewis
• Five Myths About Social Media for Attorneys By Amy DeLouise
• The Temptation to Tweet – Jurors’ Activities Outside the Trial By Michael Bromby
• Acting lessons for lawyers. By Nora Lockwood Tooher of LawyersUSA
• Warning: Anything you say can be used against you on TV. By Ernest Teitell and Susan Heller
• PUBLIC RESPECT AND TRUST. How to Restore and Deserve It. By David Ball, Ph.D.
• Lights! Action! Litigate! By David Henry Dolkas
• How to Build a Mediation Presentation That Will Make an Insurance Adjuster’s Sphincter Tighten. By Robert Gerchen
• How We Support Our False Beliefs
• 1936 Esquire: Attorney for the Defense by Clarence Darrow
• The Wolf Was Framed! Little Red was no victim by Diane F. Wyzga
• Finding Fear: Neuroscientists Locate Where It Is Stored In The Brain
• In opening a case, grab the jurors’ attention By Douglas S. Lavine
• The Female Factor By Tresa Baldas
• How Jurors Use Emotional Information to Decide Cases By Richard Gabriel
• ANCHORS and FRAMES and THEMES (Oh My) By Eric Oliver
• Haiku Nation. Words few, hard-hitting. So participatory. Mini-lit is hot. (Submitted by Thomas S. Boothe)
• FICTION 101: A primer for lawyers on how to use fiction writing techniques to write persuasive facts sections
• The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose, And Memory
• Reading Shakespeare Has Dramatic Effect On Human Brain
• The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
• Much ado over Shakespearean theater find
• Whom Do We Fear Or Trust?