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Trial success begins with pursuing the extraordinary, says Fairfax lawyer
Trial success is about pursuing the extraordinarily persuasive story, says Fairfax criminal lawyer Trial success in Virginia criminal court comes from trial experience and ability, killer instincts, passion for the criminal defendant’s cause, and in-the-moment cunning. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that preparing...
Knowing One’s True Self As A Criminal Defense Lawyer
Knowing one's true self is vital to anyone's life. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that discovering and reccognizing my true self is essential not only to me as a person, but for everything I do as a criminal defense lawyer, from connecting and...
Captivating The Jury – Fairfax Criminal Lawyer On Persuading Jurors
Captivating jurors in a persuasive, real, and in the moment manner can help them forget any negative preconceived notions about criminal defense lawyers, and lead the jury to focus on the lawyer's words and word images instead. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know the...
Jury trials – Fairfax criminal lawyer on winning them
Jury trials happen so infrequently as a percentage of criminal prosecutions in Northern Virginia that it is all the more important to assure that one's criminal defense and DUI lawyer has sufficient jury trial experience. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I have tried dozens of...
Animal cruelty versus consent – Virginia sex lawyer
Animals of the non-human variety sexually attract some humans, which is a condition known as zoophilia. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I know that in "the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V, 2013), the American Psychiatric Association listed zoophilia as a paraphilic behavior, but not generally...
Transcending annoyances today because they will recur – Virginia lawyer
Virginia criminal lawyer on transcending pests, pain, and obstacles. Transcending annoyances is a key part of criminal defense. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I know that now is the time to reach that transcendence, lest I get caught treading water and getting nowhere in a...
Winning at trial with the smoking video
For defending criminal and DWI prosecutions, the defense early on needs to move to preserve and obtain video, audio and photographic evidence of and related to the incident. At first blush, the criminal defense lawyer might ask whether it is better to try to make...
Clearing the Obstacles to Opening and Closing in the First Person at Trial
I have experienced firsthand the power of my presenting closing argument storytelling to the jury in the first person of my client. Doing so in the right circumstances transports me outside my lawyer role into the very person of my client, in the moment in...
Persuading juries and judges in the Internet and television age of information overload
If the trial lawyer has done his or her job well enough, at the end of the trial, not only will s/he win, but will leave the jury and judge wanting to hear the lawyer talk even more, rather than rushing to their cellphones to...
On battling like a flowing river, with unblocking, high vibration, zero limits and non-attachment
Nobody ever said that trial lawyering would be an easy profession. As I have said time and time again, this work is filled with proverbial projectile vomiting, projectile diarrhea, underhandedness by too many prosecutors and police, unfairness by too many judges, and shoveling sh*t.