11.11.2020 - ABA JOURNAL, Legal Talk Network Interview: Having a hard time connecting with your witness? Try these tips. Katherine James explains how she uses her theater background to advise lawyers. View full details.
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10.1.2020 - DAILY JOURNAL, Harvest witnesses’ stories for maximum impact at trial: Sidney Kanazawa writes, "I was curious. I had little respect for actors. I was a defense trial lawyer. Dealing with logical matters. Getting the facts straight. But I was curious. So I signed up for a course called “Acting for Lawyers” that was presented at the University of Southern California, my alma mater, by dramatic and comedic actors, Katherine James and Alan Blumenfeld, founders of ACT of Communication." View full details.
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With insight gained from a background in theatre and from working closely with lawyers and witnesses, James has developed a method of finding and communicating the stories that convey what she calls human damages. Injured clients may never be able to regain the life they once had—the first-best life in the world, as one client put it—but maximizing these noneconomic damages is the only way to get them the second-best life in the world. In this book, James shows how to get even the most difficult witness to share the stories that matter and that convey the human damages at the heart of the case.
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