Powerful Presentations In Court

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Powerful PresentationsIn Court

• Engaging Your Jury
• and
• Courting Your Judge
• by James M. Wagstaffe
• Kerr Wagstaffe LLP
• [phone]
• Wagstaffe_at_Kerrwagstaffe.com

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Romancing the CourtroomAn Overview

• Romance Anxiety
• Romance Purposes
• Search For Shared Meaning

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Attention Deficit Culture

• Wandering Eye Syndrome
• Control Attention
• Involve Listeners

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Monopoly

• Highest Rate of Return?
• Electric Company
• Water Works

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Getting AttentionThe Blind Date Challenge

• A Winning First Impression
• Never Having to Say Youre Sorry
• Add Spice with Variety

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Bring Flowers and Candy

• For Example/Application
• Stories
• Quotations/Case References
• Common Allusions

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Making Learning Loveable

• Motivating Listeners to Learn
• Unknown in Terms of Known
• Novel Information

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Seeing Is Believing
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Romancing the Visual Courtroom

• Furthest Person Rule
• Verbal Settings
• Be Prepared Orchestrate

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PowerPoint Hypnosis

• The Readers Dilemma
• 20 Words Rule
• Simple Engaging
• Value of a Blank Screen

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Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication

• Abraham Lincoln

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Organizational Overview
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Agenda

• Met on battlefield (great)
• Dedicate portion of field - fitting!
• Unfinished work (great tasks)

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Summary

• New nation
• Civil war
• Dedicate field
• Dedicated to unfinished work
• New birth of freedom
• Government not perish

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Oral Argument Outlining

• Konig v. State Bar

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Getting From No To Yes

• Yes Yes Method
• Logos Ethos Pathos
• Judo as a Trial Technique

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Avoid Turnoffs

• Isms
• The S-Curve
• Filler Words

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Filler Sounds

• Uh
• Um
• And um
• You know
• Really
• Like
• Okay
• You mean

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Vocal Variety

• Pause
• Volume
• Rate
• Pitch
• Inflection

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Vocal Variety Meaning

• Bill Bell builds bells. The bells Bill Bell
  builds bang and bong on Beele Boulevard. Bill
  builds bells with brass bell balls. Bells bell
  balls build big bells. Bill Bell built brass
  ball-built bells for the Beals bull, Buell. Bill
  Bells bells, brass-ball-built for Beals
  Beele-based bull Buell, biased brass bell
  builders toward Bell brass ball-built bells. Boy!

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The Ultimate ABC

• Audience
• Before
• Content