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Witness Preparation and Traffic Lights: Don't let witnesses get trapped by their own words
Avoid getting trapped by your own words when you testify in court

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Apr 94 min read
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Witness Preparation: Is it therapy?
Witness preparation: If done right, it's therapeutic for the witness

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Dec 2, 20245 min read
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Jury Selection, Bias, and Baseball
Can you convince a Dodger fan to root for the Yankees? No chance. Read on to learn how this applies to juror decision making.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Sep 11, 20244 min read
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How to Pick a Jury - the role of demographics in jury selection
What do demographics tell you about a prospective juror?

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Apr 25, 20243 min read
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Your Witness Can Defeat the Reptile Deposition (Part II)
How to handle reptile depositions as a witness

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Feb 15, 20244 min read
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Your Witness Can Defeat the Reptile Deposition (Part I)
How to handle reptile depositions

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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How to Anger a Jury (Unintentionally)
When defendants deny, deflect, finger point, and refuse to concede obvious points, jurors are likely to punish.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Dec 22, 20224 min read
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Witness Preparation - Beware of the Learning Dip
What do tennis lessons and witness preparation have in common? Read on, you won't be disappointed. I played a lot of tennis in my 20s,...

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Dec 9, 20224 min read
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Jury Selection, Ideology, and Confirmation Bias: What lawyers can learn from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Trial Attorneys: Have you ever left an intelligent person on a jury thinking, "smart people will get it," only to learn in post trial...

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Feb 11, 20215 min read
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Witness Preparation: An Analysis of Roger Stone's Deposition
Poor witness performance can be categorized in two ways: Category I, what a person says, and Category II, what a person does.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
May 26, 20207 min read
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Joe Exotic Deposition: What Not to Do
Deposition can have a major impact on the trajectory of the case. Joe Exotic's Deposition provides good examples of what not to do.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
May 7, 20205 min read
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Better Witness Preparation (Part Two)
What's the biggest mistake attorneys make when it comes to witness preparation?

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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Witness Preparation: The Four Necessary Stages (You've Never Heard Before)
Testifying is a strange communication environment. Even if your witness is a great communicator, he's not guaranteed to be a good witness.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Apr 20, 20207 min read
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Witness Preparation: What Body Language Tells a Jury
The witness is frustrated with opposing counsel. He rolls his eyes, becomes sarcastic and argumentative. He thinks he's winning - he's not.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Apr 16, 20203 min read
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Witness Preparation and Body Language: Will Jurors Think Your Witness is Lying?
Testifying is anxiety provoking ...particularly cross-examination. Sometimes jurors will assume a nervous witness is a lying witness.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Apr 14, 20204 min read
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Witness Preparation: Help Witnesses Turn the Tables on Opposing Counsel
Witnesses cannot beat attorneys at their own game. If they try they will lose every time. Witnesses need to play a different game.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Mar 30, 20205 min read
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Better Expert Witness Preparation: Undo the Curse of Knowledge
The only people the court will allow to communicate certain information to a jury are ineffective at communicating that information.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Jan 31, 20203 min read
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Mediation: The Untapped Value of Mock Trials
Mock Trials: conduct them before mediation and strengthen your settlement position.

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Aug 15, 20193 min read
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Witness Testimony: Is 93% of Communication Non-Verbal?
When witnesses testify at trial, how much impact does non-verbal behavior have on their credibility?

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Aug 12, 20194 min read
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Witness Preparation: Avoid Communication Breakdown Under Oath
If you try cases, you've probably wondered why witnesses have such a difficult time testifying in depositions and cross-examinations. Why?

Jeff Dougherty, M.S.
Aug 5, 20193 min read
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