engaging Tag

16 Oct

The art and benefit for a criminal defense lawyer to listen and engage

Essential is always for me to welcome and invest the time in actively listening and engaging with my clients. Pearls of getting closer to victory often result when least expected through my spending sufficient time with my clients in my office, on the phone, in...

2016 / Criminal Defense

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28 Sep

Criminal defense clients are not to be kept at arms’ length

If I keep distant from a client, I do not fully know my client. If I do not fully know my client, I cannot fully and persuasively convey to myself, the jury, the judge and the prosecutor who my client really is....

2016 / Criminal Defense

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15 Aug

Engage people as participants in the circle of the story

Once the persuader fully immerses himself or herself into the circle of the story, and fully engages others from that circle, they will be more likely to want to join the persuader in that persuasive circle. ...

2016 / Criminal Defense / Persuasion

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01 Nov

Owning the courtroom and world stage through vibrating highly

When fully prepared for the day's curveballs, merely annoying or otherwise offensive words are more likely to roll off my back like water off a duck's back. High vibration and high energy diminishes low energy, at least in perception, and such perception is critical. When...

2015 / Criminal Defense / Persuasion

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04 Oct

The power of diffusing rather than escalating a tense situation

We repeatedly face tense crossroads situations where we know that diffusing the situation is the right choice, but sometimes give into our temptations to escalate the tension. Diffusing the situation, or at least softening our own tension for starters, clearly is the most persuasive way...

2015 / Persuasion

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02 Oct