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August 4, 2005

Dennis re Training Trial Lawyers

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Posted by Dennis M. Kennedy

I wanted to see how the task force report Ernie referred to covered the topic of technology, so I did a search of the PDF file for the term "PowerPoint." There were zero occurrences.

For an interesting comparison on the subject of PowerPoint in trials, check out Cliff Atkinson's post called "Beyond Bullet Points on Trial" and Evan Schaeffer's comments about the article referred to in Atkinson's post. For my enthusiastic comments about Atkinson's book, see my comments here.

I may have some other comments on training trial lawyers later - the comments to Ernie's and Marty's posts are quite good, so I'm a little reluctant to introduce the level of irreverence I'm likely to have into the discussion.

However, I have made a few observations over the years that I might share. For example, I've always been intrigued by the breed of litigator who seems to spend so much time telling you how busy he is that you begin to wonder how he can get any work done and bill all those hours. I don't know how they could fit training into that schedule. Trial lawyers in general never seem shy about telling you how hard they work (and implying that you must be a slacker in comparison). Just an observation.

No time to add anything else - gotta get back to work.

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