Twelve Heroes One Voice Carl Bettinger

The Power of Storytelling for Lawyers

In considering the power of storytelling, the fundamental question—Why should jurors care?—lies at the heart of what we consider as lawyers. Jurors will only care about your “case” when it is presented in a way that involves them directly; the best way to do this is through the strategic sequencing of a fact-based story frame in which the jurors are the story’s heroes.
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$3.42 million Noneconomic Damages Verdict in Hidalgo County, Texas

$3.42 million Noneconomic Damages Verdict in Hidalgo County, Texas

In Hidalgo County, Texas, attorneys Michael Cowen and Malorie Peacock of Cowen Rodriguez and Peacock obtained a just multimillion-dollar verdict for the widow of a man who died during a trench collapse. Read more about how they obtained the verdict.

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"Your Jurors, Your Heroes" an article based on "Twelve Heroes, One Voice"

"Your Jurors, Your Heroes" an article based on "Twelve Heroes, One Voice"

The following article is adapted from Carl Bettinger’s Twelve Heroes, One Voice: Guiding Jurors to Courageous Verdicts.

All too often, the question “What is your case about?” is met with responses filled with jargon, medical terms, and professional indifference:

      “It’s a med-mal case for failure to diagnose breast cancer.”
      “It’s a birth-injury case with CP.”
      “My client is charged with being a felon in possession.”

We choose this language because it contains familiar shorthand that other attorneys will understand. But our courtroom audience is not a sophisticated legal audience; it’s a mishmash of teachers and tech writers, grandparents and grad students: people for whom common courtroom terms like plaintiff and defendant are often intimidating and ambiguous.

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Twelve Heroes One Voice Trial Magazine Book Review

Helping Heroes: a Review of Twelve Heroes in Trial Magazine

Book Review by Kathleen Nastri in Trial Magazine (July, 2012)

Trial lawyers committed to their craft will be taken to the next level by Twelve Heroes, One Voice: Guiding Jurors to Courageous Verdicts. Carl Bettinger’s book acknowledges some of the best resources on trial practice and then takes another step. He shows us how to use our storytelling skills and passion to make convincing presentations and win jurors’ hearts.

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Twelve Heroes Legal Storytelling Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College

Storytelling for Lawyers

As trial lawyers, we are storytellers. Most law schools, however, do not offer classes in storytelling. We are very lucky that Carl Bettinger, one of the best and most innovative trial lawyers in the country has answered these questions and more in his new book on storytelling in the courtroom entitled Twelve Heroes, One Voice. The great power in Bettinger’s book is that his approach forces us to shed the chains of litigating a case in favor of telling a compelling story.
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12 Heroes 1 Voice

The True Heroes in the Courtroom - a review of Twelve Heroes, One Voice

Book Review of Twelve Heroes, One Voice: I recently finished a fantastic book by one of the best trial lawyers in the country, Carl Bettinger. Every lawyer who presents his or her client’s case to a jury should read Twelve Heroes, One Voice. Buy this wonderful book. Learn to empower your jurors to become heroes. Tell them the story that lets them write the last chapter of justice for your clients.
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