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Eric Oliver is an author, speaker and a dynamic consultant to the legal profession in matters of communication, presentation and persuasion. He also writes and produces News from the Mental Edge, a newsletter of uncommon sense, delivering insight and information on all matters of communication as it relates to effective case planning and presentation.
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Winter 2008 Issue
Highlights:
• Who's Minding the Mind?
• Do NOT Do It Yourself
• Telling Stories with Technology
• Difficulty in Debunking Myths Rooted in the Way the Mind Works
Fall 2008 Issue
Highlights:
• Eight Ways to Get Exactly What You Want
• Anchors and Frames and Themes
• Courts Are Warming to Claims of 'Unconscious Bias'
• Framing the Issue
Winter 2007 Issue
Highlights:
• Lawyers are from Mars; Jurors are from Venus
• Beginning of the End
• A Touchy Topic on the Rise
• Following the Leader, of 6 or 12
Summer 2006 Issue
Highlights:
• Interview with Clotaire Rapaille
• Developing A Case Theme and Integrating It Throughout A Trial
• The Power of Persuasive Story Telling
• Get the Story Straight: Using Focus Groups to Prepare for Litigation
Winter 2006 Issue
Highlights:
• Practical Jury Dynamics: From One Juror's Trial Perception to the Group's Decision making Process. (Book Excerpt)
• Refining the Story (Book Excerpt)
• The Framing Wars
Winter 2005 Issue
Highlights:
• Witness Preparation and the Trial Consulting Industry
• Witness Preparation at Georgetown
• Surviving and Thriving in the Process of Preparing a Witness for Deposition
Summer 2004 Issue
Highlights:
• I Remember Atticus: Inspiring Stories Every Trial Lawyer Should Know (Book Excerpts)
• Before We Begin (Part Two)
• Differ or Die: Prevailing In An Era Of Rampant Anti-Plaintiff Bias
• Accidents on Trial: Inside the Mind of the Juror
Spring 2004 Issue
Highlights:
• The Forensic Applications of Social Science
• Before We Begin (Part One)
• Gesturing as You Talk Can Help You Take A Load Off Your Mind
• Testing the Comparative Negligence Affirmative Defense
Summer 2003 Issue
Highlights:
• Post-Enron Jury Perceptions and What To Do About Them
• Lives of Their Own
• Basics of Visual Communication in the Courtroom
• Telling the Story and the Importance of Rhetorical Devices and Techniques
Spring 2003 Issue
Highlights:
• Tell It to the Jury: The Role of Story Telling in Litigation
• Making Up Your Mind
• What is META-4 For?
• Working Stiffs
Summer 2002 Issue
Highlights:
• First, Lets Kill All the Jury Consultants (Book Excerpts)
• Practice Makes Room (For More Practice)
• Persuasive Techniques for the Courtroom Storyteller
• Juggling Proclivities
